Is the 3rd year anniversary significant?

UncleMorpheus

Hi,

As stated in my last thread over a couple of months ago, I've been in dispute with the other inheritor of a will for long while, now, and this ended up in court. The court ruled both of us should be removed as executors, and they'd assign another, independent solicitor to be the executor. I started the previous thread, because as there was some confusion by me about what the other side were up to in using the Law Society's application form which appeared to be to apply for an arbitrator. It turns out this form was being used to not apply for an arbitrator, but to actually assign this independent executing solicitor.

But anyway, the other inheritor's solicitor mysteriously delayed applying for this executor solicitor to be assigned by over 3 months after this court decision, which partly lead to my confusion, and to this date, I've received no explanation for this delay, in spite of asking. Well, things have continued to be odd, because the solicitor that was assigned, after an initial amount of communication (initiated by me), has ALSO now gone quiet for about 2 months.

It's difficult for me to know if there's any possible collusion between the two sets of solicitors, but they are, unfortunately based in the same city, a situation I wasn't happy about (which I expressed to the Law Society, no joy), so I guess friendships can't be ruled out, but it seems odd to me that both sets of solicitors seem to be deliberately dragging their feet and seemingly doing nothing, and not engaging in any communication with me. It seems to me that they are both waiting for something, my suspicion would be it's something to do with the 3rd anniversary of the deceased's death (i.e. who's estate it is), and this must be significant, as it is now not far away at all, as things have dragged on for that long (the other side's court case actually delayed things a whole year).

I'm about to email or call the assigned executing solicitor, to try and see what's going on, but I'd like to get an idea of what's a play here, before I contact them.

Am I right? Do the probate/estate rules change after 3 years? Should I be expecting the assigned probate solicitor, or the other side's solicitor to apply for some sort of extra powers to wind things up, perhaps more quickly, at that point?

Thanks for any help.

Keep_pedalling

Nothing significant about three years. Once solicitors are involved things tend to drag especially where the parties are in dispute.  

UncleMorpheus

Keep_pedalling said:

Nothing significant about three years. Once solicitors are involved things tend to drag especially where the parties are in dispute.  

Interesting.

Thanks.

Secret2ndAccount

Might not be relevant to this case, but, for completeness:
ISA's are closed 3 years after death. They lose their tax free status and fall into the rest of the estate.