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As per my previous posts I have been struggling as a beneficiary to a large estate to deal with a very under handed administrator, (my mother)
I have employed the services of a local solicitor but long story short we are getting no wear, with the administrator more or less refusing to provide any information or deal with our requests what so ever!
I now have a little more in site to why the administrator has been going to such lengths to try and keep me in the dark!
I have now decided leading into the new year to put a stop to there carry on once and for all, as in 2024 we are entering the 6 year since the death of my father who died intestate.
I just need help to decide on weather I should now be employing the services of a civil fraud or probate solicitor as I have very limited funds?
I am hoping for answers to the below questions and your help with my decision so I employ the services of the right one..
It has been brought to my attention from a relative (sister of administrator) that the reason the administrator has going to such lengths to cut me out as a beneficiary is in the fact that I was cohabiting the estate?
"My client (the administrator) chose not to distribute the estate according to intestate law instead choosing to distribute the estate by way of Deed of Variation"
Instead providing a draft copy of the Deed of Variation which is unsigned and has no addresses for the beneficiary's claiming it was the final copy and then some time later producing a second draft deed of variation claiming that was the final copy..?
However I have noted that details within the second draft deed of variation produced from the administrator are different from the first one produced? and land/property due to the other two beneficiary's are now in the name of the administrator and other main benificiary?
There is something that I have now noticed that is really bothering me?
I am yet to received a final copy of the Deed of Variation from the administrator or her solicitors?
However I have noticed the signature page of the Deed of Variation which contains the four signatures of the beneficiary's is on its own page with no contents of the Deed of Variation what so ever on the same page?
Its just a signature page..?
This means the administrator can change/alter the contents of the Deed of Variation without the consent or knowledge of any of the other beneficiary's (which they have already done) and just move the signature page to the end of the document or Deed?
This cannot be right?
I have employed the services of a local solicitor but long story short we are getting no wear, with the administrator more or less refusing to provide any information or deal with our requests what so ever!
I now have a little more in site to why the administrator has been going to such lengths to try and keep me in the dark!
I have now decided leading into the new year to put a stop to there carry on once and for all, as in 2024 we are entering the 6 year since the death of my father who died intestate.
I just need help to decide on weather I should now be employing the services of a civil fraud or probate solicitor as I have very limited funds?
I am hoping for answers to the below questions and your help with my decision so I employ the services of the right one..
It has been brought to my attention from a relative (sister of administrator) that the reason the administrator has going to such lengths to cut me out as a beneficiary is in the fact that I was cohabiting the estate?
- What is classed as cohabiting and how do I determine if I do in fact cohabit the estate?
- And if I am what would this mean in regards to my share of the estate?
"My client (the administrator) chose not to distribute the estate according to intestate law instead choosing to distribute the estate by way of Deed of Variation"
- Can she legally do this?
- By doing so she has made herself and one other beneficiary the main beneficiary's of the estate
- By doing so she has reduced her share and one other beneficiary's's inheritance tax liability's to £0
- This leaves the remaining two beneficiary's taking on the entire inheritance tax liability's for the 1.6 million pound estate
- Instead the administrator has signed the entire estate into there name and distributed the rest of the estate to the other main beneficiary
Instead providing a draft copy of the Deed of Variation which is unsigned and has no addresses for the beneficiary's claiming it was the final copy and then some time later producing a second draft deed of variation claiming that was the final copy..?
However I have noted that details within the second draft deed of variation produced from the administrator are different from the first one produced? and land/property due to the other two beneficiary's are now in the name of the administrator and other main benificiary?
There is something that I have now noticed that is really bothering me?
I am yet to received a final copy of the Deed of Variation from the administrator or her solicitors?
However I have noticed the signature page of the Deed of Variation which contains the four signatures of the beneficiary's is on its own page with no contents of the Deed of Variation what so ever on the same page?
Its just a signature page..?
This means the administrator can change/alter the contents of the Deed of Variation without the consent or knowledge of any of the other beneficiary's (which they have already done) and just move the signature page to the end of the document or Deed?
This cannot be right?
