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How to deal with probate when 1 executor of will is refusing to act?

shfanne_2 · 2023-10-25 12:30:32

My 96 year old father died this year leaving an old will with 3 executors, myself, his 91 year old wife (not my mother) and an elderly friend. His wife gets house, tennants in common, and I guess the contents too. I get any financial assets but his wife has told solicitors that he has none, but I know this wasn't true a…

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poppystar Posts: 1,684 Forumite

29 October 2023 at 8:35PM

Did your father have capacity when his wife was acting on the POA to release funds into her name? If he did not and there was no good reason for the money to be released for his care then surely such movements could also be challenged as not being in his best interests?

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