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"Well, well, King …
looks like the new neighbors have brought a friend for you, too."

there's also "Vollmacht über den Tod hinaus" which makes sense for couples especially but is not restricted to them. Yes the aunt has this for Oma's estate, but my wife thinks she has also been made "zweite Kontoinhaber" for the account which was destined for my wife's mum. The ...

Last week was having a "what's going wrong today" week : Wednesday the bed broke. Took a few hours to fix but it'll last until we move house in the autumn. Thursday the washing machine broke. All internet fixes were tried but it's dead. New one on order Friday the kitchen hotplates (ceran...

Oh well spotted pappnase. If granny/great granny is dead already, the power of attorney died with her. I had my Dad's and he was suddenly trying to get me to do stuff in his last weeks and after he died and I realised he hadn't made himself a new will, it became clear why he'd been so urgent about ...

sam wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 2:13 pm Thanks all but one thing, the aunt isn't a lawyer. I don't know where that came from. Don't think it changes the advice though!

My fault. English isn't my first language.

Now that is cynical! There is a will and it says that anything that is not set out in the will gets divided four ways. Being charitable, the aunt may be thinking that the gift goes back into the rest of the estate to be divided up when it is refused - but that is not what the court has said. The th...

Franklan wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 1:33 pm
That's not how it works in Germany. Asking? Pffft...

To find out if somebody is really Italian, you have to do the "Spaghetti snap in half" test...

That's because they're store-bought and not freshly made!

Due to the estrangement, my wife's mum has refused her inheritance ('Erbausschlagung'). The court provided a note about this to all those inheriting in which it said that if the inheritance is refused, it goes to your children - i.e. my wife. However, my wife's aunt (i.e. the other daughter) has wr...