hostile executor

[amseem]

my wife,s parents passed recently leaving property and cash to be divided equally to 5 beneficeries probate is through but house is not sold as yet can the executor (who is hostile to 3 of the beneficeries) instruct solicitor to pay savings portion of will to to the other 2 (their share only)and make the others wait till house sale is finalissed or must they treat all the same

 

[mf1]

my wife,s parents passed recently leaving property and cash to be divided equally to 5 beneficeries probate is through but house is not sold as yet can the executor (who is hostile to 3 of the beneficeries) instruct solicitor to pay savings portion of will to to the other 2 (their share only)and make the others wait till house sale is finalissed or must they treat all the same

They should treat everyone the same. In the ideal world.

I'd be surprised at a solicitor acting on those very odd instructions - its the sort of thing a solicitor needs like a hole in the head!

Mind you, if someone wants to be bloody minded ( and that can be beneficiaries and executors) there's not a whole heap the offended party can do.


mf

 

[amseem]

They should treat everyone the same. In the ideal world.

I'd be surprised at a solicitor acting on those very odd instructions - its the sort of thing a solicitor needs like a hole in the head!

Mind you, if someone wants to be bloody minded ( and that can be beneficiaries and executors) there's not a whole heap the offended party can do.


mf

the way i see it the excecutor will do what ever they can to upset the other beneficeries and gain favour with the other one who is already living in the parents home while its on the market is the solicitor obliged to tell the beneficeries if they ask him or is his alliegence to the exceutor no matter what

 

[mf1]

the way i see it the excecutor will do what ever they can to upset the other beneficeries and gain favour with the other one who is already living in the parents home while its on the market is the solicitor obliged to tell the beneficeries if they ask him or is his alliegence to the exceutor no matter what

His allegiance is to the executor.

In circumstances like this, where there is clear distrust and bad feeling, my advice is for the (rightly or wrongly) aggrieved beneficiaries to take their own legal advices. They may well find out that there is nothing/a lot going on that is underhand.

mf