Not declaring a car SORN

[big-all]

(Grant of probate, or Letters of Administration if no will)

I find they mostly do come back, eventually, but they are cheap to order with the initial application, so get at least a dozen. Same with death certs. Sometimes you will need to order birth, marriage and divorce documents.

If you are dealing with 20 banks and financial institurions, get at least two dozen. You might be sending a fairly standard letter out, as soon as you have the documents, to lots of companies. You don't want to hang about waiting for the first batch to come back. Utility companies may accept photocopies.

You can write on the back "please return to (your name and address)" and say in the covering letter that you want it back.

yes it would have been grant off probate

i only expected about 5 accounts where live hence the 6 certs but belt and braces check them all
i drafted a standard letter along the lines off

i understand bigall senior had accounts with you --------[space for account details]
i have enclosed an original death and probate certificate can you please check your systems and records for any monies that may be held and iff any is found please return any funds held to the executors at address given or please instruct what further actions you require to release fund you hold

the execurors are sons big all the larger big all and big all 3
thank you for your help and understanding

or words along those lines

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

i agree they wanted a percentage off my fathers estate including assets [money between a few hundred to mid k] amounting to around 200k distributed but logged by my father many years earlier when distributed but most less than 7 years previous

I heard mention, of them able to claim up to 15-25% of the estate, if they had managed to write themselves into the will - at which I panicked.

 

[johnny2007]

I didn't know that cars need to be sorn if there's no insurance, even if kept locked in a garage.
I ended up paying a fine although I had paid the road tax for the whole year.
Daylight robbery.

 

[norseman]

I didn't know that cars need to be sorn if there's no insurance, even if kept locked in a garage.
I ended up paying a fine although I had paid the road tax for the whole year.
Daylight robbery.

A couple of hundred or so years ago the penalty for highway robbery was death by hanging.

One rule for one ..