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Recent Contentious Probate Search Cases

People are fascinated to hear of waring heirs battling over a deceased relatives estate and the more sensational the case the more likely it is to make the news, especially if there is a salacious element and even more so if it involves celebrities or the aristocracy. One such case…

Heir Hunters – Not just about Hunting Heirs

Whilst it is always exciting to be involved in a quality TV programme such as BBC’s Heir Hunters, we do not allow our reputation to depend on this alone.We at Finders have been in the business of probate genealogy since 1997 and we have an international reach, allowing us to…

Genealogy and Football?

Here at Finders we’ve recently had an interesting case involving London Football Club, Brentford and one of its greatest ever fans, a man named Ron Jacobs. Ron who lived in Hounslow, was a devoted Bees supporter who recently passed away at the age of 71. Sadly, he had no known…

Increase in the number of contested wills

It is always good practice to have a will and to ensure that it is both up to date, available and valid thus ensuring that your estate will pass to the named beneficiaries and your heirs will be able to enjoy their inheritance. But even with a will in place…

Founding Sponsor of Dania School

The Chair, Eva Papesch; the Board of Dania School; the pupils, parents and friends of Dania School would like to thank Daniel Curran, Anette Roger Nielsen and “Finders international probate genealogists” for their incredibly generous donation to Dania School. This donation was given before the school opened.

Heir Hunters – Executors and Administrators

When an heir hunting company traces the beneficiaries to an intestacy where no next of kin have been traced, they may ask one of the heirs to act as Administrator, which is the name for an Executor when there is no will, they can also both be called a Personal…

New Laws on Inheritance and Trustees’ Powers

In October 2008 the Law commission started work on a project to review the existing law of inheritance and certain aspects of trustees’ powers. The project considered two areas of the law intestacy and family provision.Intestacy is when a person dies intestate, that is without leaving a valid will. The…

Remembrance Day

Every year I think about my great-grandfather Albert Edward Crust who died 1917 in Belgium. His grave is one of those amongst the emotive lines of white crosses seen across fields in Europe. Albert’s wife was pregnant with my grandfather, George Crust, at the time of his death. George never…

Canadian case reveals complications rising from a dependent ex-spouse.

It is always good practice to have a will in place that is both up to date and easily accessible. Normally this will ensure that your estate passes to those you intended to be your heirs and avoids intestacy and the complications for your beneficiaries of recovering the estate and…

Heir Hunters – Assets Uncovered – Under the Mattress!

Finders come across a wealth of stories about missing heirs, unusual circumstances, causes of death, bizarre and estranged families, but it is not often the the estate assets are found, literally,under the Deceased’s mattress. In a recent case we were asked to trace the next of kin of an elderly…

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