Gaining access to fathers house when step sibling wont alow

[Lee 101]

My father reciently passed we have not found a Will as yet and my step sister who was Next of Kin has keys for his house as his eldest biological child do i have a legal right for access to look for a Will and other paper work.

[Law Student 1]

If you cannot agree with your step sister, it is unlikely that you will be able to enter the house to search for the Will. However, you can ring local solicitors and ask if they were the solicitor for your father. Although you may not be named as the executor, and will therefore not have a right to access the Will, knowing that the Will is stored there should solve some problems.

Additionally, if your father left a will and created this will with the help of a solicitor, there is a strong chance that the solicitor may have uploaded the fact that there is a will to Certainty - The National Will Register online. You will then be able to contact the solicitor this way.

Is your step sister looking for the will? If she finds it, the wishes in the will will be granted and if no will can be located, then the*Children of the intestate person will inherit if there is no surviving married or civil partner.*

Adopted children (including step-children who have been adopted by their step-parent) have rights to inherit under the rules of intestacy. But otherwise you have to be a biological child to inherit (when there is no Will).

Further info regarding probate at-*https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate


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