Evening. We've been thrown a bit of a curve ball and I would appreciate your thoughts.
We have been forwarded a letter by the LA we adopted with from a solicitor dealing with the estate of our children's birth grandparent who it seems has recently sadly died.
The letter isn't very well written which has immediately put our backs up however we're trying to appreciate that it's just how solicitors put things. It states that they need to contact our children. I suspect that they have been named in their Will. We have a court ordered non-disclosure so the birth family do not know our address or surname, at the moment it is imperative that this does not change. Our children were put at significant risk by their birth parents and were not safeguarded by the wider family.
Has anyone come across this before? We're not sure how we feel about it and what we should do next. Morally should our children inherit from a family they are no longer legally related to? Is that even possible without disclosing our surname and address? Also morally is it our decision to make? Our children are still quite young.
I've recently lost my last remaining parent very suddenly and unexpectedly and we are dealing with that at the moment. Our LOs have taken yet another lose in their short lives very hard and need at lot of support to work through their feelings.
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CharlieSays13 · 25/07/2023 20:17
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