Daughter cut out of £1.5m will

retired_v_meenucancer · 10-04-2007, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by Retro:
Oh I see, you have to be poor before you can complain about being cut out of a £1.5m will?

seeing as she'll be absolutely fine, i don't see why anyone should care

retired_v_meenucancer · 10-04-2007, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by Docker:
Also it is the complete eradication of a family's heritage in one fell swoop.
Pretty shocking imo.

not really. there'll be a million and one stories in the news today in which people actually suffer, as opposed to people who are financially comfortable not getting a windfall

Ventil · 10-04-2007, 11:16 AM

So you'd be happy if you were forced to sell your family home and all the contents?

Photos, family memorabilia, presents you gave to your parents etc etc.

retired_ecmoore · 10-04-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally posted by Neil Purvis:
I think her interview was a bit more insightful than the article.

She mentioned that she only came back 20 years ago when they were old. Not sure how old the dad was when he died but the mam was in her late nineties.

Plus she mentioned never seeing the will around the house, which made me wonder if she’d been looking for it or not.

she forgot to look in the safe behind the constable print above the fireplace.

tbh, aren't wills normally kept with a solicitor anyway?

retired_princesspouty · 10-04-2007, 11:18 AM

The key is in this part:

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On Wednesday she told how she started work at the age of 13, driving tractors and picking potatoes.

After leaving for university, Dr Gill would return at weekends and during holidays to help.

She and her husband, Andrew, even bought an adjoining property in 1986 near the village of Potto, in North Yorkshire.

When her father, John, died in 1999, she had to look after her mother, Joyce, who suffered from a range of phobias and would not leave the house.

It's not clear how much she looked after her mother... and really, any kid brought up on a farm would be made to work on it once they were old enough surely? She's quite specific though about what she did on the farm - which makes me think it wasn't a lot.

If she wasn't that close to her mother then why buy the property next door... unless she was anticipating inheriting her parents' property even that far back.

retired_katie14 · 10-04-2007, 11:20 AM

I'm sure there's some famous quote about assumption being the blah blah blah but I can't remember it.

retired_princesspouty · 10-04-2007, 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by Kill Rock Stars:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Retro:
Oh I see, you have to be poor before you can complain about being cut out of a £1.5m will?

seeing as she'll be absolutely fine, i don't see why anyone should care </BLOCKQUOTE>
Who says anyone cares? Neil has raised a debating point... we're debating it. I don't see how 'caring' comes into it.

retired_princesspouty · 10-04-2007, 11:22 AM

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Originally posted by Kill Rock Stars:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Docker:
Also it is the complete eradication of a family's heritage in one fell swoop.
Pretty shocking imo.

not really. there'll be a million and one stories in the news today in which people actually suffer, as opposed to people who are financially comfortable not getting a windfall </BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh I see - you're bothered about the fact that people are discussing something while there are poor starving people in Africa?

Excuse me while I vomit.

retired_v_meenucancer · 10-04-2007, 11:23 AM

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Originally posted by Docker:
So you'd be happy if you were forced to sell your family home and all the contents?

Photos, family memorabilia, presents you gave to your parents etc etc.

i doubt somehow the rspca are going to nick their family photos, unless somehow they can use the photos to give badgers a home or something. and again, there are a million and one worse things happening