Your personal finance questions: does our divorce mean my will leaving property to my ex-husband is revoked?
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Q My husband and I divorced after 25 years of marriage. I had made a will prior to our split where I had left an investment property to him in the event I pre-deceased him. Now we are divorced, I assume this bequest is automatically revoked? I don’t want him to inherit this property, or indeed anything from me, any more in the event I pre-decease him.
A Separation or divorce of itself does not revoke a will and the contents of the will remain valid unless amended or revoked, said Sonia McEntee, principal with Sonia McEntee Solicitors. Although divorce removes spousal entitlements (known as the legal right share) if there is a specific bequest in a will, the former or separated spouse can still inherit that item.
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