On 08/07/2015 11:46, Huge wrote:
On 2015-07-07, Jonathan wrote:
On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 6:50:12 PM UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
stuart noble brought next idea :
There's a lot of tedious correspondence informing utility companies and the
like, but it's essentially dogsbody work, and not something you want
solicitors doing if you can help it.

I have been advised to let the utilities run until the dust settles,
paid for by DD from her account. Should the account run low, I can top
it up.

The normal thing on a death is for the bank to stop all DDs.

The moment you tell them the account-holder is dead, they will freeze the
account.


Unless it's a joint account, which I'm optimistically assuming most
"partners" would have