>> The thing that puzzles me is, when someone who has no obvious relatives dies, how
>> do the authorities, or the executor know that they have located all the assets and
>> monies that the person possessed?
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>> How does anyone know there wasn't an odd £10,000 tucked away in XYZ Unit Trust?
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Very helpfully my father, who is far more organised than I am, has a file on his laptop (backed up to the cloud somewhere) which he has told us is called “If I die” that contains details of all investments, property, bank accounts etc etc. When I suggested he rename it “when I die”, as his naming convention seemed a little optimistic, I got short shrift...
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