Actually, it's not funny at all.

It's an example of why it is important to have a will and keep it up to date.

Mr L married his partner. Time went by. They had 2 children. They bought a house and each made a will.

Mrs L fell out of love with Mr L and left him for Mr G. They got married. Mr L was forced to sell the family home to fund the divorce settlement, and the ex-Mrs L took half of a considerable sum into her new marriage.

Several months later the now Mrs G went into hospital for a routine operation.

She never recovered conciousness after the general anaesthetic and died.

The will she made as Mrs L was revoked automatically when she married Mr G, but she never thought of that and hadn't made a new will.

Under the terms of probate or intestacy everything Mrs G owned passed to Mr G. Her children by her first marriage got nothing.