Difficult one ...in my case my daughter chose (for a totally unknown reason ....speaking to me one week, then not again ever (14 years) when I tried asking why all I got was the message saying DO NOT CONTACT ME AGAIN ...no explanation as to why ....all ok one day, then nothing SO when I received an inheritance, I asked my solicitor if I could leave her or at least the grandson I am aware I have (found where she lives, when she got married, her new name, and the fact I have a grandson from research online) so I send cards etc every Christmas and birthday....never acknowledged, but I know she still lives at the address I found ...so my solicitor said NO not unless you have the birth date of the grandchild and permission from the mother to instigate savings, or a Junior Isa, etc ....so all I can do is to leave everything I have to others and to charity as I have no other family ...............my solicitor said she may contest it ....but unless she has found where I now live she cannot .....I have left instructions that IF she ever contacts me I will change my Will accordingly. and left a letter with the solicitor explaining WHY if she ever finds out when I have died, I made that decision. There are also congenital health problems she should know about ....but what can I do ! I would have loved to have seen her before I die, and maybe take the child (or may be children now !) to Disneyland or similar ! To be honest I have friends in Germany, not family, but lovely younger people who tell me I am their 'family' they make an effort to visit me (when they are allowed !) and I visit them. The only sad thing is that my 'honorary grand daughter' is having twins in May and they asked me to go over ...but with restrictions of course, I cannot do so ...they phone, e mail and text me most weeks and if they don't get a reply, they keep on until they do ! They would like me to over and live there and I have looked at houses near to them which I could afford, but with BREXIT of course, (and COVID !) I can't do that ........c;est la vie !
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