Forcing sale of shared ownership property

System

Who is/are the executors? Surely it should be them forcing the sale to finalise everything to do with the will.

Welsh_Totster

Me I was the executor due to the fact that the two original executors (solicitors) were retired many years ago and signed (formally with court paperwork) the role of executor over to me to sort out the probate which I have. Everything is done now, the Trust had been wound up and the House is registered with HMLR in both our names. It wasnt until that happened (Oct last year) that we could actually think about being able to sell.

The will stated the house should be split between my mum and I which it has and all other effects came to me (sorted) the Trust deed over rid my grans will (blame great grandad) and that had to be sorted first, he had been dead well over 40 years at the time.

Its a complicated situation which even though it looks messy now, was a lot more messy before we got to this stage!

System

In hindsight, my thoughts are that the house should not have been signed over until the debts were settled (solicitors bills). It would have then become obvious that either the house needed to be sold to pay the bills or some other arrangement made to generate the money to pay off the solicitors.

The terms of the will do not take effect until debts on the estate have been settled.

Welsh_Totster

Maybe I shall speak with our solicitor first and see what she has to say, it maybe that a letter and invoice from here will be enough to stick a rocket up my mothers back side so we can sell up. Thanks for the info