Inheritance Act – Applying for Reasonable Financial Provision

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Bring a claim under the Inheritance act 1975

The 1975 Act allows certain categories of people to apply to the Court for financial provision from a deceased person’s estate, namely:

a spouse or civil partner of the deceased (or former spouses or civil partners who have not remarried or entered into another civil partnership);
an unmarried partner of the deceased who lived with them;
a child of the deceased (including legally adopted children);
a person who the deceased treated as a child; or
a person who was financially dependent on the deceased.

You can apply whether the estate passes under a Will or the intestacy rules. You can apply even if you are already due to receive something from the estate if what you are due to receive does not amount to “reasonable financial provision” for you.

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