According to the State Treasury, the aim is to ensure that the last will of the deceased is fulfilled.
Every year, the State Treasury receives information about six hundred deceased persons without heirs. Litigation about a will is still rare. Treasury
- The district court of Kanta-Häme rejected the state’s will suit. At the same time, legal costs of over 30,000 euros fell to be paid by the state.
- A ninety-year-old farm lady died without heirs. He had bequeathed his property to a family of children whose father leased the woman’s fields.
- According to the chief legal officer of the Treasury, similar cases are extremely rare.
– Yes, there must be grounds for filing a complaint. This is very rare, but this has been a situation like this, commented the leading lawyer of the State Treasury Marjukka Vallioniemi a will dispute discussed in the courts.
Iltalehti reported on Monday that the state has disputed the will of the deceased farm owner. The district court of Kanta-Häme rejected the lawsuit and the state has already announced its dissatisfaction with the district court’s decision. So the matter is proceeding to the court.
Every year, the State Treasury receives information about six hundred deceased persons without heirs. About 60 percent of those who died without heirs have made a will.
Vallioniemi can’t immediately say because the last time the state went to court over a will.
– There have been some complaints, but probably not for five years, he states.
Taxpayers bill
Court proceedings have already become expensive at this stage. With the decision of the district court in Kanta-Häme, legal costs of more than 30,000 euros fell to be paid by the state.
The impeachment suit was concluded when the lawyer of the State Treasury saw suspicious features in the will and the process of its preparation. According to the district court, no evidence was presented in the case that the ninety-year-old farm owner had been pressured to draw up a new will.
From the outside, it looks like the State Treasury is fighting a desperate and expensive battle for the fate of the Kantahämä farm while the government is making cuts.
– It’s not purely about court costs. The effort is to ensure that everything has gone as it should, states Vallioniemi.
The state would get nothing
The woman hoped that her farm would continue to practice agriculture and forestry even after her death. Illustration picture. Levi Vepsä / KL
The elderly mistress of a farm in Kantahämälä died without heirs in 2022. In her last will in 2020, she assigned her property to the man who rented her fields and his family. The woman was 88 years old when she made the will.
Without a will, the woman’s property would have ended up with the state. However, the late farm manager had a will drawn up in 2015, in which he ordered his property to be put into a foundation.
If the will drawn up in 2020 were to be annulled due to a state lawsuit, the previous will would be followed.
– Nothing is coming to the state here. It is essential that there is some body that monitors the situation when there are no heirs, says Vallioniemi.
Both wills had in common the fact that the woman wanted her homestead to continue farming and forestry.
Deceased’s interest
According to the leading lawyer of the State Treasury, it is a matter of monitoring the interests of the deceased in a situation where he has no heirs who could challenge the will in legal terms.
– I’m not going to comment on an individual case, but the situation is that when a person dies without heirs, the State Treasury oversees his interests, he states.
Vallioniemi emphasizes that it is a very important matter, the last will of the deceased. With a complaint, it will be clarified that it will definitely come true.
– A rather important matter is how the person wanted to be done with his property. There is no other party. In such a case, the State Treasury also monitors the person’s interest, of course, that everything goes right.
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