\n Seven unclaimed estates are currently registered in Winchester, according to figures from the Treasury.\n<\/p>\n
\n The estates belong to individuals who died without a will or with no known heirs, meaning their assets have so far gone unclaimed.\n<\/p>\n
\n In such cases, the estate becomes ownerless and passes to the Crown, but relatives can still come forward to make a claim.\n<\/p>\n
\n Claims can be submitted within 12 years from the date the Crown takes possession of the estate.\n<\/p>\n
\n For deaths that occurred before 1997, claims can be made up to 30 years from the date of death.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, if the 12-year window has passed, any money paid will not accrue interest during the additional period.\n<\/p>\n
\n A government-maintained list of unclaimed estates is available online and regularly updated.\n<\/p>\n
\n You could be entitled to a share of a deceased relative\u2019s property – type in your name below to see if you are sitting on a fortune:\n<\/p>\n
\n Eligibility follows a set order of entitlement, beginning with a spouse or civil partner.\n<\/p>\n
\n In the absence of these, children, grandchildren, and direct descendants are next in line, followed by parents, full siblings or their descendants, half-siblings, grandparents, uncles and aunts or their descendants, and finally, half-uncles and aunts.\n<\/p>\n
\n If no relatives can be traced or come forward, the estate ultimately remains with the Crown.\n<\/p>\n
\n The latest list of estates can be found on the Government\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven unclaimed estates are currently registered in Winchester, according to figures from the Treasury. The estates belong to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-307210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307210","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=307210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}