To think XH has outdone himself

Why not involve the Police!? A crime has almost certainly been committed. If as appears, the girl's father is an executor, he has deliberately supplied false information in respect of the estate he is supposed to be managing in good faith. In addition, if he is a beneficiary himself, then the money his daughter would have missed out on would at least partly have gone to him, which is both fraud and theft! He could technically go to prison for this.

Why is it that these people who don’t even read or comprehend the OP are always the first to comment?

Is it because they are so desperate to be the first comment they don’t even bother to read it before typing?

Ask the solicitor if they can set up a TrustID account/link for your DD. Yes it's supposed to be used for right to work but it can verify the person is the same on their passport without having to see someone physical. Any costs linked to it should come from the estate.

I would think financial regulations demand proper identification otherwise solicitors open to fraud happening in some cases ( not yours obviously)

Who on earth are the 3% voting that OP is unreasonable? Cut from the same cloth as XH obviously. What a vile man. OP and daughters are well off without him.

With a bit of luck, if the family runs true to form, the secret son will turn out to have multiple families too, all of them ignorant of each other's existence. There could be half a dozen extra grandchildren at £5k a pop.

It is the Grandfathers Will, that’s none of the Fathers business. Post says she visited the Grandfather so she wasn’t estranged from him. Father does indeed sound petty and vindictive, it’s best that your daughters both see him for what he is and understand it’s not them it’s him.

She was not estranged from her grandfather

@BurnoutGP please don’t rely on Google for legal advice. I doubt she’s making it more onerous. We constantly have people indicating Google suggests something more simple, when it really isn’t in practice.

Grandad’s will was actually drafted in the best way for his circumstances. He didn’t want to exclude any of his grandchildren so the clause does its job. The fact that the ex committed fraud during the execution of the will does not detract from this. If he had named each grandchild individually any born after the will was signed would have been inadvertently excluded, unless he went to the expensive trouble of updating his will every time one of his children gave birth. That kind of situation is a common consequence of a badly drafted will.

The grandfather died, not the father. It says she had a good relationship with grandfather but was estranged from her father :-)

Father is a small and petty man!

She wasn't estranged from her Grandfather though was she, it's his money and he wanted it to go to ALL of his grandchildren.

It is worth your daughter informing the grandchild of the 3rd son asap and also emailing the solicitor to let her know there are x number or grandchildren. Is she aware of the 3rd child and his family?

that’ll serve her DF right and is beautiful pay back.

How did your ex behave towards DD1 at her granddad's funeral? Waw he rude and dismissive even then?

He sounds like a real piece of work.....

As despicable as he has behaved, reporting him will only make things worse at this point.

Obv if he doesn't see the will executed correctly you could use this as leverage to get her share.

What. XH needs to realise is that this isn't his money. I was the executor of my mum's will and at times it did feel like I was losing somethig by relinquishing things but ultimately the will overrides any feelings.

I am really surprised the solicitor hasn’t seen this before and should have known to check with the grandchildren he was told about, if there were any more.
Surely the executor solicitor should check with each grandchild,’ I have Amy, Ben, Cat, David and Ellie. Is this list complete, and who is missing ? Many thanks’
Or if that breaches GDPR, then a letter to each grandchild to ask to confirm who their brothers and sisters are.
Dear Amy, please confirm you are the only child of Fred, son of grandfather.
Failure to declare a sibling will be considered fraud’
Or similar.
My aunt would have declared that only her kids existed, as money was everything to her, but my cousins would have said no, we have cousins, kids of my mother’s brother.

Very odd the executor solicitor didn’t check better

It’s very common to just list “X amount each or X amount split between the grandchildren”. Most people have written their wills years before dying and this covers additional grandchildren being born during that time.

The child was not unknown to the rest of the family.

Why not. Its not his money. It's from her Grandad.

I agree it’s awful OP. I knew of something similar but it involved an estranged father and deceased grandmother who the child had lived with. They were very close. The father told the child what was left to them, gave them a cheque and it bounced. No solicitor to assist in that case.

How men can be so bloody vile to their own kids is beyond me.

Jesus Christ the bar is low for men isn’t it.

What planet are you on @socks1107 . This is abuse of a child. Let’s start calling out men’s behaviour correctly.

Truly awful men can be very nice when they want something
its how abusers operate

She's left it a wee bit late for an abortion now.

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