Cannot find a beneficiary

Brendan552004

I am studying to be a Genealogist, I have a project to carry out.

When a person dies whether making a will or dying intestate and no living person can be found to inherit his/her estate. What steps does the State take to search for a beneficiary. I presume over a period of time if the estate is unclaimed the proceeds go to the State.

Is their a list of unclaimed estates or where can the information be found.

Brendan

Tom Young

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1965/en/act/pub/0027/sec0073.html#zza27y1965s73

Section 73, 1965 Succession Act.

Brendan552004

Thank you Tom,

Is there a published list of the estates that beneficiaries cannot be found. My project is to examine one of these estates and prove that a beneficiary cannot be found.

Brendan

Brendan552004

"Degrees of blood relationship of a direct lineal ancestor shall be computed by counting upwards from the intestate to that ancestor, and degrees of blood relationship of any other relative shall be ascertained by counting upwards from the intestate to the nearest ancestor common to the intestate and that relative, and then downward from that ancestor to the relative; but, where a direct lineal ancestor and any other relative are so ascertained to be within the same degree of blood relationship to the intestate, the other relative shall be preferred to the exclusion of the direct lineal ancestor"

Am I understanding this correctly.

If you die intestate and do not have a wife and children, your next of kin is a living parent. If no living parent. your next of kin are brothers & sisters and then their children.

If you do not have a wife, children, living parents, brothers or sisters, am I correct in stating that living aunts, uncles and their issue would then be next of kin.

I think you need a legal brain to explain this section of the act

Brendan

Brendan552004

I found the answer:

http://www.bonavacantia.gov.uk/filestore/familytree.pdf