A Cast-Iron Will

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The other side won’t be certain either, after all, and this “gives us lawyers a grey area that we can play in”, which means striking deals.

Widow Sheila’s delight as life with Fred turns into a drama Widow Sheila’s delight as life with Fred turns into a drama

Mrs Dibnah, who tours the country speaking about her late husband’s work, said she was “delighted” that the saga was coming to a close. In March 1984, when things were still very strained between them, Melita took the ultimate sanction available to a parent: she formally disinherited Heather and wrote her out of her will.

Mrs Dibnah also backed a campaign by Leon Powsney, who has turned the couple’s former Radcliffe Road house into a heritage centre, to bring the engine home.

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The divorce rate is falling now, but higher rates of divorce in recent decades have created many second and third families, who don’t always agree about what should happen when someone dies. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. Mr Dibnah cut the former Blackpool showgirl out of his will just weeks before he died in November, 2004.It was intended to help protect the close dependents of someone who has died – preventing a step-parent from impoverishing the children by walking off with everything, for example (exactly as happened to the retail expert Mary Portas and her brother when they were teenagers). For instance, in most of Europe and much of the rest of the world, a principle of “forced heirship” compels a portion of every estate, often half, to be distributed equally among the deceased’s close relatives. So far, most people are not aware that they are legally entitled to this kind of “reasonable provision” from those they once depended on.

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They can never save enough to pay for their own care in old age, and will have to fall back on whatever their local authority can provide. Usually you might expect the passions of a 17-year-old to waver just as quickly, and perhaps Melita expected that. It is very upsetting to know this but you obviously have your reasons [and] I believe that there is more to your rejection than just my leaving home … ” And perhaps there was.

Unfortunately for the offspring, this also means watching what they’d started to think of as their inheritance being slowly spent. The play follows the steeplejack through his later years as he falls in love with a glamorous younger woman and deals with the repercussions of having been diagnosed with cancer.