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Hello all, I am writing here in the hope of some advise about an issue that is becoming very frustrating for myself and wife, and we do not know what to do.
Basically my wifes mother passed away in December 2020, the will had my wife and a solicitor listed as executors. We engaged the services of the solicitor in January 2021, probate was granted in April 2021.
The estate is relatively easy with only the house as the main asset, and my Wife as main beneficiary. Our 2 kids were left £500.00 and her brother was left a £1000.00, which was all paid out last Summer since it was such a small amount and money from her bank accounts more than covered it..
We then had an investigation by DWP which ran until July 2021, nothing untoward was found. The property was finally sold 3 weeks ago and the money apparently now held with the solicitors.
Unfortunately we have had a lot of frustration due to a complete lack of any progress updates throughout the whole process, with the solicitors continually ignoring many emails and phone calls. We struggled to even get any confirmation that the house sale money was sat with them until recently. Since the house sale, we have pretty much been unable to get a conversation with the person supposedly handing the estate, we are constantly bounced around person to person who usually promise to look into the query then never return back to us.
Currently we do not know when the estate will be completed, and the silence from the solicitors is deafening. We do not know what to do to get heard or get the process finally closed. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Basically my wifes mother passed away in December 2020, the will had my wife and a solicitor listed as executors. We engaged the services of the solicitor in January 2021, probate was granted in April 2021.
The estate is relatively easy with only the house as the main asset, and my Wife as main beneficiary. Our 2 kids were left £500.00 and her brother was left a £1000.00, which was all paid out last Summer since it was such a small amount and money from her bank accounts more than covered it..
We then had an investigation by DWP which ran until July 2021, nothing untoward was found. The property was finally sold 3 weeks ago and the money apparently now held with the solicitors.
Unfortunately we have had a lot of frustration due to a complete lack of any progress updates throughout the whole process, with the solicitors continually ignoring many emails and phone calls. We struggled to even get any confirmation that the house sale money was sat with them until recently. Since the house sale, we have pretty much been unable to get a conversation with the person supposedly handing the estate, we are constantly bounced around person to person who usually promise to look into the query then never return back to us.
Currently we do not know when the estate will be completed, and the silence from the solicitors is deafening. We do not know what to do to get heard or get the process finally closed. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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