question on probate

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tawse57 wrote: »

IMPO unless you are very wealthy or have a very complicated will then any Executor of the will should actually be the people benefitting from the will - in most cases this will be your loved ones such as spouse, children.
They can then push the will through probate at their leisure with very little cost.
A friend of mine is a solicitor - but also a good person - and he was telling me last year how he handled the will of a millionaire in 6 weeks and only chagred £600 - oddly, this was in a conversation where he was talking about the obscene fees estate agents make from doing very little actual real work for it.

Executors can be beneficiaries, but it sometimes happens that they are not. Sometimes they will be ‘given’ something for their trouble, sometimes not.

In our case there were three executors and I took on the probate with the others going power reserved. (one rather reluctantly) Probate was appallingly easy. Getting the estate agent and the solicitor to actually work for their dosh and be honest is the hard bit.

I’m afraid my experience of solicitors differs hugely from yours. I’m currently fighting one (who I am paying of course) to finish a very simple conveyancing job.

neverdespairgirl

My Dad got named as executor of all his great-aunts' wills (4 of them). He wasn't a beneficiary, apart from some tokens. But he went to university, and is a lawyer, so they all named him (asking him first) even though he knows nothing about probate (-:

njh82

Thanks for the comments. I have emailed our solicitors and asked them to try to find out exactly what the hold up is. They may not be able to speed it up but they must be able to at least find that out?