making\u00a0a claim<\/a>\u00a0but advises people to gather up necessary evidence, including a family tree showing the relationship with the deceased and two pieces of identification.\n<\/p>\n\n Who can claim an unclaimed estate?\n<\/p>\n
\n If someone dies without leaving a valid or effective will, the following are entitled to the estate in the order shown below:\n<\/p>\n
husband, wife or civil partner<\/p>\n
children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so on<\/p>\n
mother or father<\/p>\n
brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews)<\/p>\n
half brothers or sisters or their children (nieces and nephews of the half-blood or their children). \u2018Half \u2019 means they share only one parent with the deceased<\/p>\n
grandparents<\/p>\n
uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants)<\/p>\n
half uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins of the half-blood or their children). \u2018Half\u2019 means they only share one grandparent with the deceased, not both<\/p>\n
\n If you are, for example, a first cousin of the deceased, you would only be entitled to share in the estate if there are no relatives above you in the order of entitlement, for example, a niece or nephew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The list has been published by the Treasury showing there are 25 unclaimed estates in town, likely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":{"0":"post-266461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}