GlenGlasker
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No prosper, this is incorrect. The siblings will need to contact the family solicitor with the death certificate. From then on the solicitor will only be in contact with the executor, who may choose to use that solicitor, a different solicitor or none to assist and advise. The beneficiaries have no role to play and their only point of contact is the executor. Any solicitor appointed by the executor represents the estate, not the beneficiaries.
If the nominated executor, the distant cousin, declines the role, the siblings may undertake the administration of the estate.
This "reading of the will" is a nonsense from films and TV. Presentation of the death cert triggers a search for a will and if such is found in the solicitors' office, contacting the named executor.
I feel like I'm being told the Earth is flat; equally pointless arguing.absolutely positive that the reading of a will is not a nonsense
As yet we haven't notified the solicitors of my Mum's death but we do have copies of the Will here outlining who is appointed as Executor.
What was the TV show?
GlenGlasker - did you go to the family solicitor and how did you get on? Did they read those parts of the Will in their possession that relate to you and ditto for your brother? Did they give you the nod that the Will in their possession is identical to the copy you have? If so then have they contacted the Executor to sound them out as to whether the Executor wishes to renounce or not?
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