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Solicitor cannot locate original will

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  • user1977
    user1977 Posts: 17,770 Forumite
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    RAS said:
    Thanks poppystar, I'm hope that if Portugal can get the solicitors to renounce, you'll help if possible. Moot point if they refuse.
    If solicitor has been liquidated, I assume they can’t renounce. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you
    Who exactly are the executors though? Often it's a separate trustee company (or a named individual), not the main partnership or LLP which the solicitors traded as.
  • I appoint the partners of xxx but given that the firm is in liquidation I am not sure how it would work. 
  • km1500
    km1500 Posts: 2,790 Forumite
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    if the executor dies or no longer exists then clearly they cannot be executors

    without a will you as the only child will inherit everything anyway 

    as a beneficiary and without any executors remaining you can apply for letters of administration
  • bumpergirl
    bumpergirl Posts: 20 Forumite
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    I had a similar situation some years ago, when the solicitors 'disappeared' and they were holding the Will.  I approached the Law society and they located the will which had been with a Holding Centre in the north.
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