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Spot on FannyCornforth so many interesting questions on here please experts get back to us with answers.

Thank you Judy
If we don’t hear anything within the next two days I will contact the management and ask what is going on.

Something that I have thought after looking into this is that if one leaves a legacy to a charity that one may be exposing one's executors to pressure to hurry up and get on with it.

If the executors are family it could get awkward for them if they have jobs or health issues etc and are doing it all as best they can.

So is it possible that if someone leaves a legacy to stipulate that the charity is not entitled to get anything for ten years unless the executor chooses to finish it up earlier?

Would that give the executors time to do the job without being pushed by the charity?

Is it the case that if one leaves something to a charity then unless and until the charity formally signs that it agrees with the executor's intentions that no beneficiary may receive anything, even if the charity delays due to a backlog of work causing delay?

I was about to write a question but spotted that All who post on this thread will be entered by Gransnet into the Gransnet prize draw on 24/09/2021

I don't know how these type of threads work but with it now presumably closed, it seems pointless to leave my question. I do hope they post the answers.

Well, if you don't post your question there is no possibility of it being answered.

The replies have not been posted yet so posting your question seems worth a try.

If the two questions that I have asked today get answered then you would have missed an opportunity.

It does not say it has closed, though that might perhaps be the implication or the practical reality.

Hello Muse so do I.
I don’t know if you saw my post on the previous page, but I have contacted them this afternoon, asking what is going on.

FannyCornforth

Hello Muse so do I.
I don’t know if you saw my post on the previous page, but I have contacted them this afternoon, asking what is going on.

> Whatever your questions around writing and updating your Will, post them on this thread and Catherine and Chloe will be back with the answers later this month.

Today is 28 September 2021.

So two and just under a quarter more days in September.

It would be better to stipulate a closing date.

? I did see your post on Monday FannyCornforth saying you’d contact them in 2 days.

EP.
Looking back jochrisbryan has asked a similar question to mine.

Yes EP, that was my point.
The private health care people needed a kick up the backside to make them return.
I’m afraid that you have a rather rose tinted view of how things happen here!
Just be grateful that we have a platform on which to chat. It’s better when we are left to our devices

Hold on, in fairness, a date has been mentioned so that is perhaps in effect a cut-off date, though with optional flexibility for later questions,

So, then the people need time to prepare their answers, though perhaps that has been an on-going process.

As a result of your earlier posts I did look at some earlier sponsored discussions, but that was those and this is this.

With preparedness for allowance for possible unforeseen circumstances, that may mean that answers will be provided to all of the questions on Wednesday or Thursday, there would seem no point in paying to hold a sponsored discussion and then not providing what has been promised - indeed such a thing would seem to be very counterproductive.

From what I have been reading on the web it seems to me - but I am not a lawyer - that if someone wants to leave everything to a charity or divided amongst several charities and has a solicitor ot the Public Trustee as executor and just let them get on with it, then that is probably fine.

But if just some of it, no matter how small a part is going to a charity, which it seems has a legal obligation to pursue, perhaps focused solely on its own interests regardless of the circumstances of people who may be elderly and impoverished, then the effect upon other beneficiaries, such as relatives, could be devastating and certainly not what the person making the will had in mind.

Who knows how long the charity might take to do what might seem a very simple matter of signing a form, with things such as solicitor's holidays, backlogs, and basically people who might just be people going to work for so many hours a day with no great concern for getting things done promptly. The person making the will has no way of knowing the attitude of the people who will actually deal with it all.

It seems to me that although it seems kind and generous to put something for a charity in a will whilst also giving things to people whom one loves or hold in esteem as friends is potentially allowing a charity to cause great distress to the loved ones and friends.

I am open to being convinced otherwise.

CeriGransnet

Hello! Thank you all very much for sharing your questions. Cancer Research UK's representatives will be online later this week to post their answers to a selection of questions.

The winner of the prize draw is @Stef1972 - Congratulations!

Ah, answers to a selection of questions.

That was not what it says.

> Whatever your questions around writing and updating your Will, post them on this thread and Catherine and Chloe will be back with the answers later this month.

I have been advocating more sponsored discussions on various subjects and some people have written against it.

Changing from what was promised for this sponsored discussion simply reinforces opposition to sponsored discussions.

If only a selection of questions would be answered that should be made clear when the invitation to ask questions is offered.

Quite so. As a retired solicitor I have enjoyed reading the questions.

EP! You must be delighted! You got your own personalised blue response!

FannyCornforth

*EP*! You must be delighted! You got your own personalised blue response!

Yes.

CeriGransnet

Hi @elderlyperson thanks so much for your feedback. Catherine and Chloe are working hard to answer as many of your questions as possible. They have found that there is quite a bit of crossover amongst the questions so some of their answers will cover similar questions, or questions that that have been asked multiple times in an attempt to provide as much useful and relevant information as possible, without repeating themselves too much. Hope that makes sense

Stay tuned for the answers - thanks!

Thank you for replying.