{"id":280542,"date":"2026-02-12T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:57:10","slug":"martin-lewis-explains-what-happens-if-you-are-not-married-and-die-without-a-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280542\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis explains what happens if you are not married and die without a will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Martin Lewis has explained what happens if you are not married and die without a will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Money Saving Expert founder explained more about the intestacy laws in England and Wales during the Martin Lewis Money Show on Tuesday (10 February).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The financial guru explained: \u201cIf you are not married or in a civil partnership, if you are cohabiting but not married, your partner is not entitled to any of your assets under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mr Lewis also warned that being married but not having a will can also cost a person more in inheritance tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lewis has explained what happens if you are not married and die without a will. The Money&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,157153,246,157154,33343,110877,36419,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-280542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-civil-partnership","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-intestacy-laws","12":"tag-martin-lewis","13":"tag-money-saving-expert","14":"tag-mr-lewis","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-personal-finance","19":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}