My father was left some money in a friend’s will. However my father died before his friend. Will the money go to my father’s next of kin (ie myself) or into the friend’s estate? It doesn’t say in the will that my father should be still alive at the time of his friend’s death.
Unfortunately by the sound of things the will doesn’t say what should become of the money in the event of your father’s death, either! In that case, since your father isn’t here to receive the money, the gift will fail and the money will go back into the residue of the estate.