Solicitor is Executor! Unsure.

poppystar

NeilA1975 said:

theoretica said:

Tealblue said:

theoretica said:

Had you already told the solicitor you wanted a different conveyancer?

Irrelevant - it's up to the executor to appoint the solicitor.

It is up to the executor to appoint the solicitor - but they may choose to take beneficiary/family requests into account (as they seem to have done with finding the buyer for the house) - but they can't do that if they hadn't even been told about the request until after the fact.

They have been advised previously but have not responded at all, in fact this forms part of our complaint that they rarely respond to any messages left or emails.   Very poor.

If they are the executors then they have the autonomy to act without any requirement to consult with you. In fact I would expect that they are within their rights to actually charge the estate for correspondence and responses to you. If you were executor and employed them to do the work that would be different. 

-taff

What are you e-mailing them about? If it's how long is piece of string then I can see why they wouldn't reply to tell you the same thing over and over again. If you are beneficiaries, you have no input into the process itself, only the end result. If the solicitor is the only executor then they can do as they see fit.

NeilA1975

Then they should have made this crystal clear from the beginning out of courtesy, don't you think?

Furthermore, you think their within their rights to charge us for pointing our their errors on multiple occasions? Wow.

If I had employed them they'd be fired already.

NeilA1975

'If it's how long is piece of string then I can see why they wouldn't reply to tell you the same thing over and over again.'

Why do you assume that?

'If you are beneficiaries, you have no input into the process itself, only the end result.'

Yep, that's very clear now..we really should have just kept quiet for this entire process.