{"id":176515,"date":"2025-06-11T20:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176515\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:01:16","slug":"essexs-219-unclaimed-estates-on-the-treasury-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176515\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex’s 219 unclaimed estates on the Treasury list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n There are 219\u00a0estates linked to Essex which have\u00a0passed to\u00a0the Crown\u00a0as \u2018ownerless property\u2019,\u00a0including a number added to the Treasury’s list in 2025.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n This happens when a person dies without leaving a will and there are no apparent family members to claim the inheritance.\n<\/p>\n

\n In general, estates held on the list can be claimed within a 12-year deadline, from the date the estate was taken into possession of\u00a0the Crown.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n The Treasury\u00a0will allow claims up to 30 years from the date of the person\u2019s death for unclaimed estates dating before 1997, subject to no interest being paid on the money that is held – if the claim is received after the 12-year period has ended.\n <\/p>\n

\n The list of unclaimed estates, according to the Treasury,\u00a0is updated and\u00a0published daily on the Government\u2019s website.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

\n You could be entitled to a share of a deceased relative\u2019s property \u2013 simply type in your surname below to see if you are sitting on a fortune:\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n \u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Who is entitled to an unclaimed estate?<\/p>\n

\n If someone dies without leaving a valid or effective will, the following relations are entitled to the estate in the order shown below:\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Husband, wife or civil partner\n <\/li>\n
  2. Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on\n <\/li>\n
  3. Mother or father\n <\/li>\n
  4. Brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews)\n <\/li>\n
  5. 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\n <\/li>\n
  6. Grandparents\n <\/li>\n
  7. Uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants)\n <\/li>\n
  8. 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\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\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.\n<\/p>\n

    \n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 219\u00a0estates linked to Essex which have\u00a0passed to\u00a0the Crown\u00a0as \u2018ownerless property\u2019,\u00a0including a number added to the Treasury’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[51,474,2499,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176515","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-personal-finance","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666516219315001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}