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Access to Wills

  • 23-05-2010 4:43pm
    #1
    23border
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 ✭


    hi does anyone know where to find a will that was made about ten years ago? My solicitor told me I ought to be grateful that I was being looked after and not to make trouble looking for a will. Think I may have been done over.


Comments

  • #2
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    The will is a public document and will be availble for inspection at the probate office.


  • #3
    Jo King
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭Jo King


    Try the Probate Office.


  • #4
    3DataModem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭3DataModem


    + New Solicitor


  • #5
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Jo King wrote: »
    Try the Probate Office.
    3DataModem wrote: »
    + New Solicitor

    Indeed.


  • #6
    dats_right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭dats_right


    A will is most certainly not a public document, it is very much a private and personal document to the testator. That is until the tesator dies, whereupon the executor therein appointed may either renounce, reserve or attempt to prove the will. Only when the will has been proved and a Grant of Probate issues does the will become a public document.

    My reading of the OP's post is that he/she was enquiring about the contents of their own will from the solicitor who drafted it some time ago and now stores it. It is not unreasonable for the solicitor not to want to pull it from safe storage merely so the testator can have a quick peek at it, afterall it is time consuming to do this and the testator should have kept a plain copy of it at the time it was drafted. That said the will remains the property of the testator and he/she can insist that it is released to them, but just don't expect the solicitor to accomodate you by continuing to store it after you've looked at it and say yeah that's grand and hand it back.


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  • #7
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    dats_right wrote: »
    My reading of the OP's post is that he/she was enquiring about the contents of their own will from the solicitor who drafted it some time ago and now stores it.

    I read the OP differently. I thought the OP was a beneficiary/prospective beneficiary who thinks he may not have gotten his due from a relative's estate and the original will is missing...


  • #8
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    Wills after probate can be examined in the probate office if you are a beneficiary (anyone used to be able to look at them, but the former President of the High Court issued a practice direction last year which changed this)


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