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It seems to me from this post and your other posts that you are very busy and somewhat impatient. Things need to happen immediately for you, if not sooner. If you were my client, I suspect I would not like acting for you.
What you are actually asking the solicitor to do is to facilitate you with the CU. Now I don't know if you are a client of this particular solicitor who is "a bit crazy and unreliable" or whether they are acting for the estate of which you are a beneficiary. If he is not acting for you, he does not have to respond to you. If he is acting for you and you are unhappy with his modus operandi, you should get another solicitor who will respond instantaneously to your instructions.
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I do not think that employing another solicitor is a realistic suggestion in that the latter would have to get an undertaking from the family solicitor in regard to the funds.
Not quite. The solicitor will pay you your inheritance net of his fees, outgoings, VAT and the taxes which he will remit to the revenue.... In theory, I could receive the €50k and not pay the CU loan off with it at all. ...
I already said that my parents used to use this solicitor but changed because of his unreliability. I also made it clear that the only reason my uncle did not change was becaus of habit. Elderly farmers are set in their ways and wouldn't be bothered changing.For someone who is giving such bad service it seems your family sticks with him all the same.
I already said that the reason for wanting the loan sooner rather than later is because the sterling rate is gradually improving so changing a large amount of euro into sterling sooner will save me money.Do you have a pressing urgent need for the loan?
I have not asked him to undertake anything. I have just asked him to confirm that I am a beneficiary and that I have been left land and money, subject to tax and fees.Maybe he needs to indeed confirm that the estate is as valuable as you state before giving any undertaking as 'talking' to an accountant means diddly squat.
Again, I have stated a few times that I did speak directly to the solicitor in question.I suggest that you talk directly to the solicitor instead of relying on vague answers here.
You should be irritated that the solicitor in question is bringing a bad image onto your profession, not leaping to his defence simply because someone critised him. I am a secretary, if you say your secretary is a bit rubbish, I'll take your word for it because you are the one dealing with them. I won't blindly leap to their defence just because they have the same profession as myself.The internet help you are getting is from solicitors (and accountants) who are voluntarily helping and do not appreciate another professional being slated on-line.
As I said, I made this clear numerous times throughout the thread. I don't mean to be rude but I don't understand why people post questions without reading the facts stated which already answer these questions!.I assume you HAVE spoken directly to the solicitor and explained the urgency?
I do expect to pay for this, I assumed that this fee would be added to the rest of his fees to be deducted. However I may suggest to the secretary that I will pay for this directly myself rather than have them wait for it.I would also suggest that as this is completely outside of their role in acting for the estate that the solicitor is quite entitled to charge extra for this.
So you are forecasting that sterling will get stronger. If you do get the money ASAP and sterling heads south ......... who will you blame? The banks? The solicitor? The Credit Union?
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