This man died in my workplace one month ago. He has been having health challenges for some time and because of this, he has been having running battle with his wife for more than 5 years before his untimely death. The woman has allegedly been involved in extramarital affairs and would leave home for up to a whole week sometimes, leaving the medically challenged husband to be the one taking care of their 3 children. The man has about N2.5Million as his net contribution as at the day of his death in our cooperative society, N1.5M in his housing contribution scheme and more than N8million in contributory pension. One week after the man's death, his wife stormed our office with a letter from a lawyer, asking that all issues relating to her late husband's money in cooperative, housing and pension be resolved in her favour since under the law, she is the authentic next of kin as the children are minors. It was discovered that the man actually made his younger brother his next of kin four months before his death and did not write any will. The family members have also written and asked the office to stop any issue relating to the benefits of their brother for now and that they are interested in making sure those monies are used for the children and that the wife who already had a lover even before the death of her husband will spend the money and the children will lose out. The three children also came in company of the younger brother of the deceased to plead that their mother should not be paid their father's money since she is in the habit of leaving them at home without caring for them and that it was their late dad and the eldest child (a 15year old girl) who has been cooking their meals for the past three years. In this scenario, who is the authentic next of kin or who should be the beneficiary of this man's assets? However, the organization has directed all the correspondences to the Legal department to handle.

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Lawyers will give us a legal view, but I think the brother is the NoK.


Don't give the adulterous woman one kobo. She should go and continue sharing her nunu...absentee mother that want to claim money.

I was even thinking her husband did something to her to deserve such neglect during his illness...but for her to jump out immediately he died to claim money shows she is wicked.

She didn't remember the kids are minors when she was absconding from home. RIP to the man, I pray the kids get well taken care of.

solace2013:
This man died in my workplace one month ago. He has been having health challenges for some time and because of this, he has been having running battle with his wife for more than 5 years before his untimely death. The woman has allegedly been involved in extramarital affairs and would leave home for up to a whole week sometimes, leaving the medically challenged husband to be the one taking care of their 3 children. The man has about N2.5Million as his net contribution as at the day of his death in our cooperative society, N1.5M in his housing contribution scheme and more than N8million in contributory pension. One week after the man's death, his wife stormed our office with a letter from a lawyer, asking that all issues relating to her late husband's money in cooperative, housing and pension be resolved in her favour since under the law, she is the authentic next of kin as the children are minors. It was discovered that the man actually made his younger brother his next of kin four months before his death and did not write any will. The family members have also written and asked the office to stop any issue relating to the benefits of their brother for now and that they are interested in making sure those monies are used for the children and that the wife who already had a lover even before the death of her husband will spend the money and the children will lose out. The three children also came in company of the younger brother of the deceased to plead that their mother should not be paid their father's money since she is in the habit of leaving them at home without caring for them and that it was their late dad and the eldest child (a 15year old girl) who has been cooking their meals for the past three years. In this scenario, who is the authentic next of kin or who should be the beneficiary of this man's assets? However, the organization has directed all the correspondences to the Legal department to handle.

(Thou am not a lawyer) The man's younger brother is the actual next of kin since he has named him so. this situation can be likened to an insurance policy where the beneficiary is specific. similar situation happened in my office some years back,where a man died and his gratuity was paid to his 2nd wife who bored him his only child because he changed his next of kin to her name. But his pension contribution was paid to the childless 1st wife because he did not change the next of kind to his 2nd wife before he died.

Obviously the brother is the next of kin.

Talking as a self-trained lawyer and a concerned Citizen

lala come and take this to front page

The brother is the actual next of kin

Thunder will even fire a lawyer that will try to say that the woman is the next of kin

nnamdibig:
Thunder will even fire a lawyer that will try to say that the woman is the next of kin

Fear lawyers my brother. With about 10% or more of that money going to his pocket, a clever lawyer will go to court, look for technicalities and win the case for that woman. That woman look more clever than the family the way I see it.