Firstly, this is based in the Republic of Ireland but I hope someone can give me advice. My father died last year and several years ago he told me he and his 2nd wife had made mirror wills; spouse inherits and then anything left on the death of that person is shared between the adult children. Today I have requested a copy of the will only to be told by the Probate Office that his widow has declared he died intestate and deeds of administration have been issued to her. We definitely know there was a will as my aunt signed as a witness. Does this constitute fraud? It means if she were to die today her 2 adult children would inherit the lot. I know the final outcome will be the same anyhow as there was never anything to stop her leaving it all to them anyway but what she has done it still wrong and disrespectful to my DF. The main questions I have is how can this be allowed to happen? What's to stop a next of kin saying there's no will when there is one? Any advice will be welcome.