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Thanks so much to everyone for your input and a special thanks to the last 3 posters previous to this one for completely understanding where I was coming from with regards to my husband feeling a little hurt and upset. We both now feel so much better knowing that a) Michaels Mum wasn't being hoodwinked into something not quite correct, and b) that everything is exactly as the Inheritance Rules says it should be (excuse my wording not being totally correct but I'm sure you get the gist of what I'm meaning). It really wasn't about the money, we have struggled financially for the last 20 yrs whilst running an animal rescue charity and are used to watching the pennies. It would have been lovely to have inherited along with Michaels 6 cousins and we had been confused up to now as to why Michael was getting nothing. Michael is the only child of his Mother as she has said many times that she has made a will leaving everything to him, of course I wish her to go on for many years and there's no reason why she shouldn't she's in excellent health, where as Michael has several health problems, so she could well outlive him. I suppose whoever it is that makes these laws see everything in black and white where parents die before their offspring etc etc. It is what it is though and I'm happy at least to know it wasn't to do with a family decision but simply the way the Laws of Intestency work out. Don't suppose we'll ever know why Uncle John didn't write a will, he was in his 90's when he died a few months back, he had been living in a Nursing Home for the last 5 yrs or so and was also suffering with Dementia, but why a man with a considerable amount of money hadn't written a will long before that is a mystery. Thanks again for your help...