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This is quite long, so please bear with me.
In 2018 my Father sadly passed away and Mum took the decision to make a new Will for herself.
To give you some background, over the years I have helped Mum and Dad out financially as I had been left money by my Late Husband and they were struggling. I'm not taking a few hundred here and there, but tens of thousands. Mum and Dad had a joint Will in which they left me 10,000.00 at 8% interest per year, this didn't cover anywhere near what they'd had off me, but to give me any more would mean the surviving partner would have had to sell the home to pay me off and I didn't want that.
After Dad died, Mum made a new Will with Solicitors to reflect what I'd done for her and Dad from 1990 to the present day. Mum also did a Letter of Wishes to explain her decision to my siblings.
The following year, Mum had a stroke and then was diagnosed with early onset dementia.
Mums dementia has progressed but she still has lucid moments and recently in one of her lucid moments, she asked me to take all of her paperwork to my home for safekeeping, but first she asked me to go through it and amongst the papers, was an invoice for the same solicitors as had done her Will . I asked Mum what it was for as it was roughly the same amount as her Will costs for 2018, but this was dated 2020. It is my belief that she has been bullied by my siblings into changing her Will.
I don't want to upset my Mum by asking if she's changed her Will, and why , but if it's been changed, it was changed during lockdown and by this time Mum had been diagnosed as having dementia.
I feel as though I have been kicked in the stomach I am so hurt in that I never pushed Mum and Dad for any money back that they'd had off me, but they always told me I would be looked after in their Will and they'd made me Executor of their joint Will, then Mum made me Sole Executor of her Will and I strongly suspect now that has now been changed.
Please can anyone tell me what , if anything, I can do. I know It's up to people who they leave their Estate to, but Mums 2018 Will was repaying me monies owed basically....I am really struggling now financially due to circumstances beyond my control and the only thing keeping me going was knowing I'd be getting some of the money back that I'd helped Mum and Dad out with but I fear that has now changed
In 2018 my Father sadly passed away and Mum took the decision to make a new Will for herself.
To give you some background, over the years I have helped Mum and Dad out financially as I had been left money by my Late Husband and they were struggling. I'm not taking a few hundred here and there, but tens of thousands. Mum and Dad had a joint Will in which they left me 10,000.00 at 8% interest per year, this didn't cover anywhere near what they'd had off me, but to give me any more would mean the surviving partner would have had to sell the home to pay me off and I didn't want that.
After Dad died, Mum made a new Will with Solicitors to reflect what I'd done for her and Dad from 1990 to the present day. Mum also did a Letter of Wishes to explain her decision to my siblings.
The following year, Mum had a stroke and then was diagnosed with early onset dementia.
Mums dementia has progressed but she still has lucid moments and recently in one of her lucid moments, she asked me to take all of her paperwork to my home for safekeeping, but first she asked me to go through it and amongst the papers, was an invoice for the same solicitors as had done her Will . I asked Mum what it was for as it was roughly the same amount as her Will costs for 2018, but this was dated 2020. It is my belief that she has been bullied by my siblings into changing her Will.
I don't want to upset my Mum by asking if she's changed her Will, and why , but if it's been changed, it was changed during lockdown and by this time Mum had been diagnosed as having dementia.
I feel as though I have been kicked in the stomach I am so hurt in that I never pushed Mum and Dad for any money back that they'd had off me, but they always told me I would be looked after in their Will and they'd made me Executor of their joint Will, then Mum made me Sole Executor of her Will and I strongly suspect now that has now been changed.
Please can anyone tell me what , if anything, I can do. I know It's up to people who they leave their Estate to, but Mums 2018 Will was repaying me monies owed basically....I am really struggling now financially due to circumstances beyond my control and the only thing keeping me going was knowing I'd be getting some of the money back that I'd helped Mum and Dad out with but I fear that has now changed
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