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Re: Estate accounts refused
Now now, boys; play nice! (that's not a observation, just a distant memory).
Thanks all for the replies, but they're mostly clear as mud to a lay person I'm afraid.
Valuation of house contents was ~£650, for probate purposes, by local auction house, but he insists there were 'valuable' items of which he needs to know the whereabouts; no other siblings claim any knowledge of any such items, and appear to be happy with my conduct of the administration.
-#11 1): never gonna happen
2) '...for as long as it takes...' : fills me with dread
3) he in effect has 'renounced'; verbally, by phone as some kind of twisted protest; also, did not provide when requested by the solicitor, copy of birth certificate; bank account details into which the estate share could be paid, or even a contact phone number, although he then proceeded to ring the solicitor about once a week asking yet more (actually spurious) questions as, presumably, a delaying (and expensive) tactic.
Solicitor's statement was that they, as a firm, could not hold the share indefinitely, and gave me the responsibility of opening the account where it sits to this day.
Over two and a half years after our Dad died, I have no energy left to care one way or the other. He's the eldest, and perhaps should have taken charge of the process. I'd thought about it, I would cheerfully have paid some firm £xxxx to deal with the whole thing.
Now now, boys; play nice! (that's not a observation, just a distant memory).
Thanks all for the replies, but they're mostly clear as mud to a lay person I'm afraid.
Valuation of house contents was ~£650, for probate purposes, by local auction house, but he insists there were 'valuable' items of which he needs to know the whereabouts; no other siblings claim any knowledge of any such items, and appear to be happy with my conduct of the administration.
-#11 1): never gonna happen
2) '...for as long as it takes...' : fills me with dread
3) he in effect has 'renounced'; verbally, by phone as some kind of twisted protest; also, did not provide when requested by the solicitor, copy of birth certificate; bank account details into which the estate share could be paid, or even a contact phone number, although he then proceeded to ring the solicitor about once a week asking yet more (actually spurious) questions as, presumably, a delaying (and expensive) tactic.
Solicitor's statement was that they, as a firm, could not hold the share indefinitely, and gave me the responsibility of opening the account where it sits to this day.
Over two and a half years after our Dad died, I have no energy left to care one way or the other. He's the eldest, and perhaps should have taken charge of the process. I'd thought about it, I would cheerfully have paid some firm £xxxx to deal with the whole thing.
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