Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Value of Estates disclosed in Newspapers

Options
  • 13-01-2012 7:56pm
    #1
    annecy
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭


    After death it is common to see a persons estates valuation in the newspaper.
    Is it possible to block this disclosure, if so how?
    People live private lives so why are their affairs published for all to see?


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    Milk & Honey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,950 ✭✭✭Milk & Honey


    annecy wrote: »
    After death it is common to see a persons estates valuation in the newspaper.
    Is it possible to block this disclosure, if so how?
    People live private lives so why are their affairs published for all to see?

    Don't die rich. Only the higher value estates are published in the papers.


  • Options
    #3
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    I think the last President of the High Court said he wanted the practice of the publication of wills to cease - dunno if he ever did anything about it.


  • Options
    #4
    annecy
    Registered Users Posts: 39 ✭annecy


    So is this mandatory? and is it the solicitor who writes to papers or job of executor


  • Options
    #5
    bath handle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 370 ✭✭bath handle


    annecy wrote: »
    So is this mandatory? and is it the solicitor who writes to papers or job of executor
    A will is a public document. Most of tne papers in a probate are available to the public. The lasr President of the High Court only restricted access to some papers. There was never any question of banning public access entirely. The newspapers source their figures from the publicly available documents. Nobody is obliged to notify them. As noted above, it is only the more valuab e estates which are published. Occassionally tne estate of someone well known is mentioned, even if not valuable.


  • Options
    #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,382 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    annecy wrote: »
    After death it is common to see a persons estates valuation in the newspaper.
    Is it possible to block this disclosure, if so how?

    Once the will is admitted to probate it is a public document, anyone can ask for a copy.

    Once a grant of probate or letters of administration have issued, the original will, the oath and bond, become available for inspection. Copies may be obtained on payment of the appropriate fee by any member of the public - section 42 of the Succession Act, 1965. See practice direction HC49 for the new rules on accessing the Inland Revenue affidavit.

    The Probate Office holds the records for grants which have issued within the past 20 years. The records for grants which issued prior to this are held at the National Archives. These may be inspected in the Reading Room of the National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8.

    http://www.courts.ie/Courts.ie/Library3.nsf/PageCurrent/F2051BFE4462AAB3802575AF003E0ED0?opendocument&l=en
    annecy wrote: »
    People live private lives so why are their affairs published for all to see?

    Because someone who thinks that they were mentioned in the will but who heard nothing from the executor has the right to see the will. Othwerwise a crooked executor could dish out the assets to his friends and not bother with the people mentioned in the will.


  • Advertisement
Advertisement