Awful solicitor

Concernedbeneficiary

Hi there, am a beneficiary of my mothers will (who died 2020, probate granted Dec 2021) and feel that the solicitor has facilitated the administrators complete and utter failure in fiduciary duty to my brother and I in that it has taken 3 years to sort this out and we are finally getting inheritance in the next week. I understand my brother in law (administrator) and sister have delayed this but ti was quite a simple process! Anyway, would like to know to whom and how I can complain about solicitors behaviour?

Thanks in advance!

sheslookinhot

Has the solicitor being following requests etc from your brother in law ? You mention fiduciary duty to your brother and you. Why have you not mentioned the same fiduciary duty to your sister ?

fatbelly

Unfortunately 3 years is not unheard of. Who was appointed executor by the will? Was it your brother-in-law? How does he feel about the solicitor as ideally the complaint should come from him.

Hoenir

Concernedbeneficiary said:

I understand my brother in law (administrator) and sister have delayed this but ti was quite a simple process! Anyway, would like to know to whom and how I can complain about solicitors behaviour?

What did your brother in law and sister do / not do ?  What did you do to expedite matters that they were delaying? 

oliver1951

See the law society website, follow link

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/public/for-public-visitors/using-a-solicitor/complain-about-a-solicitor

Keep_pedalling

You don’t really have a complaint with the solicitor the responsibility lays entirely with the executor. Why did your mother appoint her SIL rather than her own children as executors? 

Concernedbeneficiary

sheslookinhot said:

Has the solicitor being following requests etc from your brother in law ? You mention fiduciary duty to your brother and you. Why have you not mentioned the same fiduciary duty to your sister ?

I assume he has followed requests from solicitor and my sister is keeping property and paying us each a third of value. She is part of the problem with delays.

Concernedbeneficiary

Hoenir said:

Concernedbeneficiary said:

I understand my brother in law (administrator) and sister have delayed this but ti was quite a simple process! Anyway, would like to know to whom and how I can complain about solicitors behaviour?

What did your brother in law and sister do / not do ?  What did you do to expedite matters that they were delaying? 

They wanted to buy my mothers property to rent which we agreed to but they then lied and delayed matters for 3 years and we will finally get monies in the next week. As my brother and I both live out of country then there really was nothing we could do to expedite matters. If we'd have known it was going to take 3 years we would have forced it to be sold once probate was granted....

Concernedbeneficiary

Keep_pedalling said:

You don’t really have a complaint with the solicitor the responsibility lays entirely with the executor. Why did your mother appoint her SIL rather than her own children as executors? 

My mother appointed my sister as executor but she passed the role to my brother in law. I understand that it'snot really the solicitors fault for the delays but am sure they did not try to expedite matters!

Marcon

Concernedbeneficiary said:

Hoenir said:

Concernedbeneficiary said:

I understand my brother in law (administrator) and sister have delayed this but ti was quite a simple process! Anyway, would like to know to whom and how I can complain about solicitors behaviour?

What did your brother in law and sister do / not do ?  What did you do to expedite matters that they were delaying? 

They wanted to buy my mothers property to rent which we agreed to but they then lied and delayed matters for 3 years and we will finally get monies in the next week. As my brother and I both live out of country then there really was nothing we could do to expedite matters. If we'd have known it was going to take 3 years we would have forced it to be sold once probate was granted....

Where you live is pretty irrelevant in these days of electronic communication, so I don't think you can blame the solicitor for that. 

Concernedbeneficiary said:

Keep_pedalling said:

You don’t really have a complaint with the solicitor the responsibility lays entirely with the executor. Why did your mother appoint her SIL rather than her own children as executors? 

My mother appointed my sister as executor but she passed the role to my brother in law. I understand that it'snot really the solicitors fault for the delays but am sure they did not try to expedite matters!

What hard evidence do you have that the solicitor is at fault in any way? You can't just point the finger at them because you think they'll be an easier target than the real culprit(s):

 Concernedbeneficiary said:

Hi there, am a beneficiary of my mothers will (who died 2020, probate granted Dec 2021) and feel that the solicitor has facilitated the administrators complete and utter failure in fiduciary duty to my brother and I in that it has taken 3 years to sort this out and we are finally getting inheritance in the next week. I understand my brother in law (administrator) and sister have delayed this but ti was quite a simple process! Anyway, would like to know to whom and how I can complain about solicitors behaviour?

Thanks in advance!

Complain about what? You're saying it was 'quite a simple process' but if the executor delays things, it's anything but.

From what you've said (and that's all I can go on), your beef isn't with the solicitor - it's with your sister and/or brother in law.