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My Sisters Bank Won't Let her release My Inheritance To Me-Please Help.
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No but it does now seem with this new information the OP has a right be to upset as it appears the sisters have their money, I and I assume most others when we were answering previously were thinking they were all in the same situation.
It may be that if the worse happens and there is a need to go to court that the sister may not be so quick to do this as they already have their money!
3 weeks ago my Solicitor told me by letter and email that he had heard from my sisters who told him the house had been sold and that I would get my inheritance in about 2 weeks.
Then a week later 2 weeks ago I got both an email and a telephone call from the well sister.
My sister said she wanted to pay the money into my bank account instead of sending it to my solicitor.
And she seemed keen to pay me direct since she said it is my money and as executors my sister pay me.
So I phoned her up to give her my bank detail of one of my bank accounts for her to pay into.
I also phoned my bank Nationwide who advised me to tell my sister to send it in a CHAPS payment and Nationwide explained how my sister should do it.
By going into her branch of Barclayes bank.
And my sister told me she was going to do it the next morning and I was expecting her to send it to me.
But when the next morning came my sister phoned and emailed me mid-morning and told me that when she went to the bank they would not let her do the payment without the other sister being there and signing.
She let me speak to my other sister on the phone and she did sound very ill.
My sister told me they got less money than me because she said they have both paid the estate agents and their solicitors fees for selling the house. And my well sister said she spent some of her inheritance on a deposit for her rented flat she had to move to when she left my mothers house.
I have not actually asked her if they have got their money but from what my sister told me, it sounds like they have.
And were going to send me my share until Barclays Bank stopped my sister because the other sister cannot go with her to the bank.
I hope not but that is possible that my sister might not want to pay for a solicitor to go to court to get power of attorney because it would come out of her money.
If my sister does not get better and that does happen I will have a big fight on my hands trying to get my inheritance.
As I don't even have an account with Barclays Bank and I am not an executor of the will. And I am on benefits and so I have limited funds myself.
I am now afraid of the real possibility that I may loose my inheritance or may not be able to get it because of the system with Barclays Bank.
I don't think I can live with the fact that mum left that 118k to me and I may have to spend years fighting in court to claim it or possibly might not even be able to claim it because I cannot afford lawsuits.
So I may never get that money.
That is not right and I don't know what to do now.
I think if my Solicitor won't help me fight this, if it comes to that, I must at least seek legal advice with another Solicitor.
I cannot just give up and let that money go.
I can't.
It's my money that my mother left me and I have got the will to prove it.
But it seems my sister who is well is willing to pay me my money. But Barclays Bank won't let her do it unless the other sister is there at the bank with her to sign.
If my ill sister recovers enough to go to the bank and sign then I will get my money.
But if she is so ill that she does not then I have got a problem.
Yes as my solicitor and you have said I can sue my sister who are both the executors of the will if they refuse to pay me my money.
But it is not the case.
The problem is that one of my sisters, the executors is to ill to manage the executors account.
And because the account is in both my sisters names and a joint account, the bank won't let the well sister release the money.
Because both executors have to be at the bank in person together to sign.
So I am stuck.
Sorry to be negative but I don't think it's necessarily going to be that easy to move back into social housing when your inheritance runs out. You could end up renting in the private sector for the rest of your life, I'm afraid.
I understand that but Ann isn't getting it at all.
I was trying to redirect her to the person/people who is best placed to sort things or at least inform her of what is happening - and hopefully they can reassure her that things will get sorted in time. Everyone here is clearly failing in that despite valiant efforts and Ann's posts are getting more and more stressed.