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How long are probates taking right now?

akorn77 · 2022-06-19 13:01:43

In the process of buying a house. Sellers probate has been undergoing for 15 weeks now - they used a specialist probate solicitor to handle it. EA told me its a simple/straight-forward probate with just one property. EA seems to think it will arrive in the next few weeks, although not sure how they are making that…

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user1977 Posts: 19,239 Forumite

20 June 2022 at 7:40AM

Choirgrl said:

Noneforit999 said:

… so we are now in limbo with an empty house that cannot be sold yet but bills etc have to be paid.

Are you sure you can’t sell? It may depend on how the will is worded, but it may be that you can go ahead and sell the house, but shouldn’t distribute the proceeds to the beneficiaries until the DWP come back to you. They are concerned that you don’t distribute money that they are going to claim back.

This. It doesn't make any difference to a creditor whether the house is sold or not, as long as the executors are still in control of the assets.

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