Executors gone silent

TcpnT

I believe that anyone can obtain a copy of the Will by application to the appropriate office, particularly as family members

What do you mean by appropriate office ? Surely unless the will goes to probate it is quite possible that nobody except the executors will ever see it.

Marcon

SeniorSam wrote: »

I believe that anyone can obtain a copy of the Will by application to the appropriate office, particularly as family members. In this case it would seem that as some pension has been already paid, then they were probably named beneficiaries. Perhaps the pension company may give a lead?

The pension company/scheme won't help; they will simply (and correctly) cite GDPR. The pension money paid will have been outside the estate and thus the will is unlikely to have featured at all.

Malthusian

I haven't seen the original post but if post #9 is a fair summary, my advice to the OP would be to write it off and not cause themselves any more grief or stress over it.

If the OP's father had a Lego collection worth tens of thousands of pounds or more then the OP would almost certainly know about it as it would be in the local papers, require specialist insurance, probably have its own building, and it would be most unlikely that the father would be otherwise penniless.

Any less than that and the claim that the funeral expenses swallowed it up is very plausible. Funeral expenses have first claim on the estate and this may outrank specific bequests.

If there were no liquid assets in the estate to pay for the funeral then selling the assets may have been unavoidable, which means this is purely about money, and not enough money to make it worth the hassle and grief.

It's a shame that the likelihood of arguments over the distribution of an estate is negatively correlated to how valuable it is.