Co executor now refusing to cooperate

Pammieh

Hi
The fees for the mediation and those paid to a solicitor to provide us advice in 'challenging' him won't come from the estate, will they? We told him that the instruction he's given to this solicitor and costs he incurs if he takes us to court will be paid from his own pocket because it's not to do with the administration process? I hope that's right (this solicitor sends so many letters that - if he is charging per letter - his bill must be really high already)
I think the nephew's just 'lashing out' (trying to find something to cause trouble/find fault with us) He's asked his solicitors to investigate a further lease he believes my father-in-law held which he believes we haven't declared as part of the Estate...(I think my father-in-law held then sold another property in the early 80s) but all of this is just because he's angry and not being rational ...my father-in-law has been dead 12 years so if there was anything else in his Estate that should have been dealt with then (nephew and husband were joint executors then too) but everything just passed over to mother-in-law without need for Probate as only house and small amount of premium bonds. I have to say that I am not hopeful that this will be resolved in mediation.