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My partner's uncle was deceased at the end of April 07 and my partner is a beneficiary in the will. The estate is to be divided up between 6 beneficiaries in total. A solicitor was appointed as the executor of the will and has been dealing with everything from the probate, to the selling of the house and the revenue. Last week we received a letter from the solicitor stating that she had received the Certificate of Discharge from Capital Acquisitions Tax from the revenue commissioners and was now waiting for the revenue commissioners to issue her with clearance to distribute the funds. I rang the revenue myself to get clarification on this, and the guy I spoke to seemed a bit taken aback with it, saying that once the revenue issue the certificate of discharge they do not have to do anything else and the solicitor should be able to distribute the funds. The solicitor had originally told us that once she received the certificate of discharge that she would be in a position to distribute the funds however now she is saying we have to wait for another letter.
Does anyone know what the normal procedure is in this scenario? Is it true that the solicitor has to wait for another letter from the revenue to distribute the funds? Or would she be stalling on it for any other reason? She previously told us that everything would be through by the middle – end of January, so things have already gone on 6 weeks longer than we originally expected.
Does anyone know what the normal procedure is in this scenario? Is it true that the solicitor has to wait for another letter from the revenue to distribute the funds? Or would she be stalling on it for any other reason? She previously told us that everything would be through by the middle – end of January, so things have already gone on 6 weeks longer than we originally expected.