Dealing with difficult co-administrator of estate

Hoenir

Speak to a solicitor. Seek proper legal advice. 

poppystar

If there was only money and no property and if the banks paid out the money within days of death, as you say, then why were letters of administration applied for anyway? - particularly if the value of the estate was thought to be nil at that time. Was the account the money was in a joint account of the deceased and current partner? If not, you might question the bank on why they paid out to current partner. 

leafyll

Letters of administration are needed as the estate is due to receive a compensation payout. Bank accounts were in deceased’s sole name.

Flugelhorn

yes very curious as to why they paid out to current partner before LoA 

Spendless

I hate to be the one to say this but one person keeping funds that should have been shared out has come up before on here and turned out they've kept and spent them. I truly hope this isn't the case here but for that reason I would seek some legal advice. 

Flugelhorn

Spendless said:

I hate to be the one to say this but one person keeping funds that should have been shared out has come up before on here and turned out they've kept and spent them. I truly hope this isn't the case here but for that reason I would seek some legal advice. 

yes just thinking of those cases - really need some proper advice

leafyll

I have already contacted solicitors and been advised that I can take legal action against the co-administrator. This is going to be my next step, but my question was if anyone had experience with this before and managed to resolve without the need to take it further and incur expensive legal costs.

Keep_pedalling

Flugelhorn said:

yes very curious as to why they paid out to current partner before LoA 

Banks have quite high limits they will pay without probate. All they require is proof that the person closing the accounts is who they say they are and that they are entitled to do so. A spouse or child will be able to do it as will someone who is appointed executor of a will. If this wasn’t the cas3 every single estate would have to apply for probate however small.

Sea_Shell

leafyll said:

I have already contacted solicitors and been advised that I can take legal action against the co-administrator. This is going to be my next step, but my question was if anyone had experience with this before and managed to resolve without the need to take it further and incur expensive legal costs.

I don't have any personal experience, but sadly, I can't recall any cases posted about on here, where there has been a successful distribution of funds, once things start going awry.     Unless anyone else can think of any?

But, maybe those threads just didn't get updated.     

Fingers crossed yours will be a success story. 

Spendless

I'm unaware of a happy ending to one of these cases  that's been posted on here either. There's still an outstanding one from nearly a year ago that I'm still rooting for.

The thing is if the person with all the funds was doing the honourable thing they would have shared out the money in the first place, rather than taking it all because they are being vindictive, feel they are entitled, don't see they're doing anything wrong (take your pick). 

It takes a legal letter to spell out to them that they shouldn't have done this and now need to remedy the situation. Unfortunately that's when the excuses usually start.