Dealing with Estate

konark

Can you name one thing the OP has done that could be seen as intermeddling? TBF he has done the square root of jack all.

Even if he has dealt with some of his father's affairs the courts have held that short of misappropriation of assets, or attempting to pay legacies and creditors you will not be liable. The following have all been deemed to be 'interferences of a minimal nature' and NOT to be intermeddling;

Opening an executor's account

Collecting and paying monies owed to the testator into their account

Organising a funeral and getting the estate to pay for it.

Paying out monies for essential liabilities such as utility bills and insurance

Instructing a valuer to value the assets of the estate.

(Holder v Holder , 1968)

Furthermore intermeddling is not a crime and you can only be held liable for the amount you have cost the estate.