Will not fully executed - what can i do?

unforeseen

pphillips wrote: »

It is exactly what the term means.

Here are my references:

http://www.inbrief.co.uk/estate-law/formalities-making-a-will-s9-wills-act/

http://probate.uk.com/will_problems.html

What you all have been referring to is "administering an estate".

https://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/personal/probate disagrees with you.

pphillips

unforeseen wrote: »

https://www.lawontheweb.co.uk/personal/probate disagrees with you.

I think everyone can agree with the Oxford English Dictionary.

"1.3 Law
Make (a legal instrument) valid by signing or sealing it"

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/execute

Manxman_in_exile

lizzie742 wrote: »

Yes sorry for any confusion, the will is valid but the executor hasn't carried out the instructions of the will.

This is what the OP wants an answer to.

Gingernutty

The will itself was valid.

The executor has failed in his duties.

https://www.hcrlaw.com/blog/believe-executor-acting-improperly/

Malthusian

pphillips wrote: »

I think everyone can agree with the Oxford English Dictionary.

Good, then you'll agree that both uses of the term (signing and witnessing a Will, and adminstering the estate) are valid.

"1.4 Law
Carry out (a judicial sentence, the terms of a will, or other order)" (my emphasis)

Nowhere does the OP say or even hint the Will was not correctly signed and witnessed - it is entirely clear he means it was not carried out correctly.

The only way the OP can be interpreted as saying the Will was not valid is if you read the title and skip straight to the wotireckon box without reading the actual post, and randomly assume meaning 1.3 rather than 1.4.

pphillips

Malthusian wrote: »

Good, then you'll agree that both uses of the term (signing and witnessing a Will, and adminstering the estate) are valid.

Of course I agree that execute has more than one meaning.

Malthusian wrote: »

Nowhere does the OP say or even hint the Will was not correctly signed and witnessed - it is entirely clear he means it was not carried out correctly.

That's not true - in the first paragraph the OP wrote "Things were fraught from the start, as my father basically strong-armed the family friend out of the execution of the will..." Then in the third paragraph the OP wrote "Since my grandma's death, our family has become increasingly estranged..."

It seemed to me that the OP was writing in chronological order so that there was upset from the start when the friend was strong armed out of executing the will by the OP's father and then after the Grandmother's death the situation with the OP's parents got worse.