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Is my fathers estranged wife entitled to claim his pension?
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My father recently passed away leaving no will. He was 61 years old and no yet in receipt of a pension, but was claimng pension credit and out of work. His wife and he split up nearly 2 yrs ago now and this has left him bankrupt and finding out she had taken a lot of debt out in his name. They had their house repossesed and she had access to his mothers savings account which we have since found out she cleared out of £20,000. He was in the process of charging her via a soliciter regarding fraud and the theft of the monies (although she had put herself as a named person on the account so will obviously get away with it) but it was obvious that they were not freindly etc.
Ive now read that when its time for his pension to be issued, she as his wife (they had not yet began divorce proceedings) will be able to claim some or all of that pension?
Obviously both myself and my two siblings (not to mention the whole family) would be appaled if she could in fact do this, so im wondering if there is any was that i can prevent this from happening (my dad did not have a will) I am the executer of his estate.
My father recently passed away leaving no will. He was 61 years old and no yet in receipt of a pension, but was claimng pension credit and out of work. His wife and he split up nearly 2 yrs ago now and this has left him bankrupt and finding out she had taken a lot of debt out in his name. They had their house repossesed and she had access to his mothers savings account which we have since found out she cleared out of £20,000. He was in the process of charging her via a soliciter regarding fraud and the theft of the monies (although she had put herself as a named person on the account so will obviously get away with it) but it was obvious that they were not freindly etc.
Ive now read that when its time for his pension to be issued, she as his wife (they had not yet began divorce proceedings) will be able to claim some or all of that pension?
Obviously both myself and my two siblings (not to mention the whole family) would be appaled if she could in fact do this, so im wondering if there is any was that i can prevent this from happening (my dad did not have a will) I am the executer of his estate.
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