Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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Dec 2024
5:49pm, 22 Dec 2024
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Ally-C
I’m trying to work out how an 85 year old with no internet access has arranged a delivery to someone from a florist hundreds of miles away in Macclesfield. Wouldn’t mind but I never even got a birthday card 😂 |
Dec 2024
6:07pm, 22 Dec 2024
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Little Miss Happy
Resourceful Ally!
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Dec 2024
6:18pm, 22 Dec 2024
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Ally-C
Little Miss Happy wrote: Resourceful Ally! If only she could do anything nice for the folk who do everything for her(not me), but for the best part of 20 years that hasn’t been the case. |
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Dec 2024
6:19pm, 22 Dec 2024
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Ally-C
Don’t blame the person, blame the illness. But that’s hard when it’s hurtful over such a prolonged period.
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Dec 2024
6:22pm, 22 Dec 2024
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Little Miss Happy
It is Ally and you can't put everything down to the illness - as she's just evidenced.
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8 Jan
5:41pm, 8 Jan 2025
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jdawayinamanger
Lawyer says probate may be 8-12 weeks now. I’ll believe it when I see it but that’s a cause for some optimism.
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8 Jan
7:36pm, 8 Jan 2025
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Lizzie W
I hope ours is quick.
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8 Jan
7:39pm, 8 Jan 2025
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Bazoaxe
But coincidence we had a lawyer update tonight and one of our questions back is how long they think conformation (ie probate) will take. We were hoping less than 8-12 weeks, but if thats the guide ad we are behind your then its 12-16 weeks away I guess
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8 Jan
7:48pm, 8 Jan 2025
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3M
I hope that's the case @jdawayinamanger for you! I listened and nodded non-commitally to a guy from Co-Op Legal Services for about 40 minutes yesterday, whilst he tried to sell us their services for Probate mainly by telling me how many people struggle with the form filling process. His "fixed price" was double what the solicitors who were holding Mum's will quoted, and we thought they were expensive! And of course, they have no control over what speed the probate courts work at. I'm quite looking forward to doing it myself now! Valuer coming to look at the house tomorrow morning. Stage 1 (and major part) of info required to value estate for probate and IHT. |
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8 Jan
7:54pm, 8 Jan 2025
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Lizzie W
The info for the probate forms isn't mega complicated (unless your finances are) but the forms are mind boggling (compared to, for instance, a self-assessment tax return)!
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