No doubt your mother (if you were lucky enough to have one, if not your step mother, guardian, foster mother etc) provided lots of love and care as well as financial support through your early years. So do you have to leave them money if you die before them?
The answer is mostly ‘no’. Let’s start with the ‘yes’ part. If you are financially keeping them when you die, then you may well have to leave them some money otherwise they may be able to challenge your will and who you’ve decided to leave your money to.
However, mostly it’s a ‘no’ situation because as is the situation with most of us, you’ve left home, you don’t support your mother financially and you don’t really have any financial links. When this is the case you don’t have to leave them anything in your will.
This has been highlighted following the death of DJ Kevin Greening. He left his entire estate, around half a million pounds, to his life partner Adrian Lowe.
Why this is looking unusual is because Mr Greening left his partner two years earlier (the relationship, although they continued to live together) but never updated his 1991 will.
The importance of updating your will, or at least checking it at least annually, has become abundantly clear, at this point. Always ask for the advice of a professional.
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