Solicitor volunteering to resign as Executor

Hashtag6

Have had lots of trouble with a solicitor named as joint executor with me in fathers will. Inaccuracies, admin errors, in ability to add figures together on IHT, at first tier of complaint and after second complaint letter solicitors have volunteered to resign (IHT and grant of probate just submitted but solicitors will amend it removing them) my question is the terms and conditions of the contract I signed were hourly rate and 1.5%. If they volunteer to resign prior to the probate being completed can they still lay the 1.5% even though they have not fulfilled their role to conclusion? Many thanks

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Hashtag6 wrote: »

Have had lots of trouble with a solicitor named as joint executor with me in fathers will. Inaccuracies, admin errors, in ability to add figures together on IHT, at first tier of complaint and after second complaint letter solicitors have volunteered to resign (IHT and grant of probate just submitted but solicitors will amend it removing them) my question is the terms and conditions of the contract I signed were hourly rate and 1.5%. If they volunteer to resign prior to the probate being completed can they still lay the 1.5% even though they have not fulfilled their role to conclusion? Many thanks

Given what you have said I would insist that they forgo it. They really can't expect to charge an hourly rate and a percentage anyway. I doubt they would want it to end up in court because of the bad publicity they would get. Technically they cannot resign if they have already dealt with the estate but maybe they know a way around that.