Q&A: I borrowed to pay bills for funeral flowers, food and headstone. How do I get that money back?
Funeral expenses are a claim against a person's estate, and should be forwarded to whomever is administering it. Photograph: iStock
My question is: who do I send all the rest of the bills to? For example, the flowers for the funeral, the food after the funeral, the headstone?Motor levy reduction to save motorists on average less than €6 annuallyI have never had to deal with anything like this. I borrowed money from people to pay all these expenses, as my parents do not have much money at all.There’s a lot of sadness in your letter, alongside the understandable confusion over what happens now.
In situations like this, where you have a marital break-up, with all the discord that can ensure, it is even more critical as your assumptions about who should benefit from your estate may well change. Whenever a person dies, whoever is managing their affairs has a responsibility to gather together details of all their assets and all their debts, if any
I suspect this is what happened here. Perhaps they intended to formalise things but he died before that happened. Your brother’s former solicitor must know the status of their separation, so you should check that with him. It is certainly not the case that you need to be divorced to lose out on succession rights.
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