Hi all,
my father is the executor to his late parents will. His father died in November 2000 and his mother only two years ago. There are eight remaining children. My father is the main beneficiary from his parents estate which is causing some unease amonst his siblings. However the main problem at the moment is his solicitor or rather my granparents elected solicitor. Things are draggging their heels to say the least so my father came to me to lend a helping hand.
My Granfather never made a will so the estate went into probate. I believe this is a process whereby the solicitor along with the probate office issue letters of administration to examine what is the remaining estate, its value and who the beneificaries are. That's my rough understanding of it. In this case there was a wife and eight children. My Granmother gets 2/3's and 1/3 is to be divded up between the subject - his children. Now my Granmother made a proper will and just divded up the entire estate as she saw fit. As stated earlier my father is the main beneficiary. So strictly speaking the disputes are arising from my Granmother's will, but when I phoned the probate office not even an application was lodged to sort out my Granfathers end of things. When I contacted my fathers solicitor with regard to this he said that due to ongoing disputes my Granfathers application was lodged and withdrawn twice on my fathers instructions. My father has no memory of ever asking him to do this. but why on earth would it be necessary for my Granfathers application to be withdrawn based on disputes arising from my Granmothers will. Surely my Granfathers application is just a matter of process - that is just to examine the estate and who the beneficiaries are? In other words should my Granfather application not be treated seperately from my Granmothers? I am meeting the solicitor this week so I want to gather as much background information as possible.
my father is the executor to his late parents will. His father died in November 2000 and his mother only two years ago. There are eight remaining children. My father is the main beneficiary from his parents estate which is causing some unease amonst his siblings. However the main problem at the moment is his solicitor or rather my granparents elected solicitor. Things are draggging their heels to say the least so my father came to me to lend a helping hand.
My Granfather never made a will so the estate went into probate. I believe this is a process whereby the solicitor along with the probate office issue letters of administration to examine what is the remaining estate, its value and who the beneificaries are. That's my rough understanding of it. In this case there was a wife and eight children. My Granmother gets 2/3's and 1/3 is to be divded up between the subject - his children. Now my Granmother made a proper will and just divded up the entire estate as she saw fit. As stated earlier my father is the main beneficiary. So strictly speaking the disputes are arising from my Granmother's will, but when I phoned the probate office not even an application was lodged to sort out my Granfathers end of things. When I contacted my fathers solicitor with regard to this he said that due to ongoing disputes my Granfathers application was lodged and withdrawn twice on my fathers instructions. My father has no memory of ever asking him to do this. but why on earth would it be necessary for my Granfathers application to be withdrawn based on disputes arising from my Granmothers will. Surely my Granfathers application is just a matter of process - that is just to examine the estate and who the beneficiaries are? In other words should my Granfather application not be treated seperately from my Granmothers? I am meeting the solicitor this week so I want to gather as much background information as possible.