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No. But if you feel the price is unusually low or that there is something afoot you can challenge it. It's unusual for probate to be given prior to the sale of the property if, as you seem to infer, that the house 'needs' to be sold. The reason for waiting till sale agreed and contracts signed by buyer prior to seeking probate is that you are not liable for CGT as the house may rise in value in the meantime. A year is a reasonable timeframe according to revenue.A house needs to go up for sale, can I ask for the final approval of the selling price?
I did the say the house needs to be sold. Does that not infer that I have been left something. Yes, I and my brother have been left all of my father's estate, and we were informed of this immediately after his deathDo you know if you have been left anything? It's possible you've inherited nothing, in which case the solicitor doesn't need to contact you at all.
Thank you for the information. It is a UK will.Do I infer that the will was made in the UK ?
If so, some different rules might apply in how you go about matters.
In view of your unease it might be helpful to go around the solicitor and get information from public records.
Try this link to go about getting information https://www.gov.uk/wills-probate-inheritance/searching-for-probate-records
If you just happen to be in the UK and this is an Irish death and an Irish will the solicitor has no obligation to tell you anything if he is acting for the executor. If you are a beneficiary you are entitled to be informed of any inheritance by the executor or the executor's solicitor acting on his instructions.
Also, if this is an Irish will and you have a properly founded reasonable expectation of an inheritance you may be entitled to make a legal challenge under S.117 of the Succession Act 1965. Link http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1965/act/27/section/117/enacted/en/html#sec117
The first priority for you is to get sight of the will that has been admitted to probate as everything starts from that document.
If it is an Irish will you can get a copy of it from the Probate Office if it has been admitted to probate i.e. a Grant of Probate has been issued. Link http://www.courts.ie/offices.nsf/65...be735bced234bbbc80256e45005861c7?OpenDocument Once a will has been admitted to probate it becomes a publicly available document.
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