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Daughter who missed out on inheritance takes Barclays’ to court over will-writing services (16 July 2015)
Date: 16/07/2015
Barclays is facing legal action over its will writing services, after a woman alleged that her later father was not advised by the bank that he had to serve a notice of severance for her to be able to inherit 50% of the property he left upon his death.
A deed of severance is needed in cases where a property is owned jointly –the deed apportions each share of the property to the respective parties sharing ownership of a property.
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Tinuola Aregbesola alleges that her late father was not advised of this necessity when he used Barclays’ £90 will-writing services.
Ms Aregbesola took her case to the Financial Ombudsman Service, who ruled against the bank and in her favour.
However, the Ombudsman later claimed that its ruling was actually outside the scope of its remit and it was unable to rule on the case, which falls outside the scope of regulators.
Ms Aregbesola is now taking her case against Barclays to the High Court to secure her half-share in the £800,000 property left by her late father.
Barclays has not commented on the case, the Law Society Gazette reports.
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