With regard to Joint Accounts, I was thinking that the amount in the account should be there just to cover funeral costs and other basics.

I have an elderly friend who doesn’t have any relatives, he has a joint account with one of his executors, he keeps a set amount in that account to cover his funeral and enough to clear a couple of months utility bills.

Unfortunately death can bring out the worst in people, it’s such a pity, mind you it seems to me that these days when you make a Will the solicitor delves very deeply into family and other circumstances, it is noted in the Will if certain people are to be explicitly excluded from benefiting from a Will.

Anyway, I hope that Mac Hardy gets himself sorted it’s not a ver6 nice matter to have to deal with.