What? You don’t even have one? Shame on you. You battle all through your life trying to build up a bit of wealth and then you don’t even exercise your right to say what will happen to it when you die. That’s a bit like not bothering to vote in our new democracy So what happens if you die without a will (known as dying intestate). Then your assets will be distributed according to a rather complicated formula which we all learned at university then promptly forgot. It’s called “per stirpes”. From what (little) I remember it works like this…
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