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Bad situation with a Will - help!
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Personally I would avoid telling them anything, and just set about selling all the assets/estate.
The quicker it's done, the quicker you can hand over a cheque for 25% each, along with a receipt showing what everything sold for. Perhaps a quick diagram showing their DAD got 50%, which is why it works out 25% each.
Hopefully they'll be blinded by the money.Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')
No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)0 -
As a matter of interest, are you due to receive a share of the residue from your late brother's estate?
If not, or if you are getting a bequest, then you can at least take comfort in knowing that with all their arguing and wrangling, all they are doing is reducing their inheritance by increasing the costs of administering the estate.Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no: 203.0 -
As a matter of interest, are you due to receive a share of the residue from your late brother's estate?
If not, or if you are getting a bequest, then you can at least take comfort in knowing that with all their arguing and wrangling, all they are doing is reducing their inheritance by increasing the costs of administering the estate.
No, I get nothing at all from my brother's estate, not even any allowance for all the work it has caused trying to administer it. And it already has occured to me that all they are doing is reducing their share - in fact, I put as much work over to the solicitors as soon as I realised what a hassle it was going to be. So they have shot themselves in the foot by being such pains.
In fact one of the wrangles is that they are now challenging the solicitors fees charged - they are not big on recognising irony.....
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It's amazing how people react when it comes Wills. Something similar happened in my family. They fought so much over the estate that they eventually owed the solicitor money because there was nothing left in the estate to pay the bills.
My best advice is that you are executor and YOU decide what happens. Seek the advice of the solictor, and if it becomes too much get the solicitor to deal with the beneficeries.
If they decide to question the Will then on their heads be it.......Just because I disagree with you, doesn't mean I hate you. We need to understand this as a Society :beer:
Each morning we are born again, what we do today is what matters the most.
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