Intestacy Rules Flowchart
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What happens if you die without making a Will? Notes: 1. Children includes adopted and illegitimate children, where intestate died after 4 April 1988, but excludes stepchildren 2. Children receive their inheritance on reaching 18, or earlier marriage 3. Descendants share equally the parts that the deceased parents would have taken 4. Spouse includes civil partner Y Y Y Y N Y Y N N Y Y N N N N Is your estate worth more than £250,000? Do you have children? Are either of your parents still alive? If you have brothers or sisters, are both of their parents the same as yours? Do you have children? Spouse gets everything Is only one parent the same as yours? Shared equally between such brothers and sisters (or their descendants, if any have died) Shared equally between such brothers and sisters (or their descendants, if any have died) Shared equally between your grandparents Shared equally between your surviving parents Shared equally between your children (or their descendants in any have died) Are your grandparents still alive? N N Y Everything will go to the Crown Do you have uncles or aunts who share one parent only in common with your mother or father? Shared equally between such uncles and aunts (or their descendants if any have died) N Y Are you married? Spouse receives: Household contents & personal effects First £250,000 Half the residue Other half shared equally between your children (or Shared equally between such uncles and aunts (or their Do you have uncles or aunts who share both parents in common with either of Queens House, 35 Market Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2HL Telephone: 01484 538421 Fax: 01484 533076 Spouse gets everything
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What happens if you die without making a Will?
Notes:1. Children includes adopted and illegitimate children, where intestate died after 4 April 1988, but excludes
stepchildren2. Children receive their inheritance on reaching 18, or earlier marriage3. Descendants share equally the parts that the deceased parents would have taken4. Spouse includes civil partner5. “Married” includes being in a civil partnership
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Is your estate worth more than £250,000?
Do you have children?
Are either of your parents still alive?
If you have brothers or sisters, are both of
their parents the same as yours?
Do you have children?
Spouse gets everything
Is only one parent the same as yours?
Shared equally between such brothers and sisters (or their descendants, if
any have died)
Shared equally between such brothers and sisters (or their descendants, if
any have died)
Shared equally between your grandparents
Shared equally between your surviving parents
Shared equally between your children (or their
descendants in any have died)
Are your grandparents still
alive?
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Y
Everything will go to the Crown
Do you have uncles or aunts who share one parent only in common with your mother or father?
Shared equally between such uncles and aunts (or their descendants if any
have died)
N
Y
Are you married?
Spouse receives:Household contents & personal effects
First £250,000Half the residueOther half shared equally between your children (or their descendants)
Shared equally between such uncles and aunts (or their descendants if any
Do you have uncles or aunts who share
both parents in common with either
of your parents?
Queens House, 35 Market Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2HL
Telephone: 01484 538421 Fax: 01484 533076
Email: [email protected]
Spouse gets everything
