Solicitor cannot locate original will

user1977

Portugal1000 said:

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.

Portugal1000

I appoint the partners of xxx but given that the firm is in liquidation I am not sure how it would work. 

km1500

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

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.