SOLDIERS’ ESTATES
Payment Without Probate
Authority for the payment without probate of amounts up to £2OO, representing pay and allowances _ due to a member ot’ the armed forces at the time of death in respect of his or her services as a member of the armed forces, is given in regulations gazetted last night. Previously such payment could be _ made only up to a limit of £lOO, but it has bceii found tluit amounts of pay due to member)) of the services at. the time of death sometimes exceeded that figure, and the law has been altered accordingly. The regulations provide that such payments may be made to first, the widow or widower of deceased; secondly, to persons entitled to receive such payments under a will or on intestacy; thirdly, to persons entitled to obtain probate or letters of administration; fourthly, to persons undertaking to maintain deceased's children; fifthly, to any person who is a creditor or has paid funeral expenses.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 36, 6 November 1942, Page 5
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161SOLDIERS’ ESTATES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 36, 6 November 1942, Page 5
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