Making A Will

[pusskin]

Would an adopted child have any legal right to the blood parents estate if there hasnt been a will made by them? Thanks abers x

[plowter]

As I understand it, not an automatic right.
They can apply to the executor for financial help from the estate.

[NOX]

Usually adopted children are specifically excluded from inheriting from a natural parent who has died intestate. If the parent has made them a beneficiery in a will then they can obviously inherit but not otherwise.

[pusskin]

Thanks for reply plowter, just as I thought.
That request should never be denied if the accasion arose.
The grown up child should not be left out of a will even when coming back into its biological family. x

[pusskin]

Thanks Nox, being left money will be better all round if the child has returned to a happy reunion with family etc, and included in any moniesx

[tonywiltshire]

Nox & Plowter are right in law as under the rules of intestacy adoption severs the link with blood parents, the adopted children are treated in the same way as birth children. If there are no surviving relations the estate could go to the treasury, which would be known as Bona vacantia. This is one of the main reasons everyone should make a will and ensure it is valid.

[Peter Pedant]

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yeah and dont forget to tune into Heir Hunters which is all about people failing to make wills and the govt getting the moolah

or not as the case may be

[pusskin]

its heir hunters thats made me ask this question peter.
I love that programme. We've been having a discussion, and I have said that once a child is adopted, its out of the family untill such times that child could return to you. i love happy endings x
Thanks again for all replies x