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Your mother can renounce administration of the estate.
If she does so there is a strict order of priority as to who has the right to apply instead which is as follows:-
Please accept my condolences.
Your mother can renounce administration of the estate.
If she does so there is a strict order of priority as to who has the right to apply instead which is as follows:-
- you are the married partner or civil partner of the person who has died
- you are the child of the person who has died
- you are the grandchild of the person who has died
- you are the parent of the person who has died
- you are the brother or sister of the person who has died
- you are the nephew or niece of the person who has died
- you are another relative of the person who has died.
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