leaving money to the rspb in your will

[paulc]

my mates Dad passed away a few weeks ago and in his mirrored will(same as his wifes) he left a donation of £200.00 to the rspb, well he has been dead for nearly a month and his wife is trying to sort out all of the financial stuff with thier banks, insurance companies and the solicitors...BUT, and this is just a word of warning for anyone thinking of leaving a donation in thier will...she has been pestered from the rspbs solicitors who are insisting on inspecting all of the documents including the will and recieving all correspondence from the solicitors that is sent to all other beneficiaries including my mates mum, and they were only notified by the executors last week about His death, they have rung her twice and sent three letters already the poor woman is demented and inconsolable, my mate has offered to pay the rspb thier £200.00 and to leave his mum alone but the Rspbs solicitors are having none of it...for the sake of two hundred quid, they are riding rough shod over a grieving womans feeling and carrying out thier task like a mindless robot and what is worse is that they are quite within thier right to do it.

as soon as she is sorted out, she is going to change her will so that the rspb dont do it to her son for the sake of £200.00.

Thinking of leaving a donation in your will...dont do it!

Rant over!

[Marcel]

Thats awful. What right do they have to inspect the documents? Is it becaue they are beneficiaries to the will?

[paulc]

yes apparently they are entitled as beneficiaries, and the RSPB has a dept specially set up to deal with will entitlements...how sad, they are like vultures.

[scraggs]

I may be wrong here and stand to be corrected but I'm sure they can't harass her, they have to deal with the executors of the will.

[Keltic Ice Man]

must admit - This is one of the reasons I quit the RSPB.

The other was the amount spent on expenses etc. I know it costs a lot to run charity organisations, but I got a BIG shock at how much didn't go to the birds.

Sorry off Soap box.

[paulc]

his son is an executor and lives at the same address as his mum, however, he has now handed the whole thing over to a firm of solicitors to deal with because he didn't quite understand what the RSPBs solicitors wanted and felt it would be better to have it dealt with officially.

he thought that it would be straight forward and did not count on the RSPBs aggressive approach to claim what is rightfully theirs.