This is quite a convoluted question so apologies in advance
Dinner party conversation last night has left me feeling anxious about this. We live abroad (France) but all family back in the UK. We have made wills back in the UK, citing legal guardians for our DCs in the event of both DH and I dying. WE have a copy of this will as does a solicitor in the UK. However, how does it work in a foreign country? We have heard that DCs would be taken into care by French social services straight away in the event of our deaths. We would NOT want this…we would want them with friends until UK family got here asap and took them back to the UK.
Should we give the emergency contacts (listed with the school) a copy of all the UK numbers of family? Should we give a copy to everyone we know, to cover all eventualities? Should we tell friends to get DCs back to UK immediately if anything ever happened to us, so DCs are not 'taken' by social services? Is there something legal we can do here in France so things are in place?
Any suggestions of reassurance most welcome as I am (perhaps irrationally) worrying a lot about this
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Raptorrethy · 19/01/2014 10:18
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