Left The House In My Late Mum's Will But My Sisters Refuse To Sell It-HELP!

Have you got a printer, Ann? If you have, it would be a good idea to print out a copy of this entire thread and show it to your GP or the CMHT.

Yes I have printed this thread and shown it to an adviser at the CAB, Citizens Advice Beau I went to this morning.
And the adviser said the same as what my solicitor said.

That what some of the posters have said here about the judge ruling that my sister can live in the house and that it cannot be sold until she dies is nonsense and not true.

The Adviser at the CAB also told me the same thing as my solicitor, that my sister can stay in the house if she buys her way out,that is gives me my share of my thirds of the money from the house.
Otherwise she will have to put it up for sale.

The CAB adviser also told me the same as the solicitor that I cannot sell the house myself because I am not an executor of the will. But that my sisters who are executors do have responsibility to make sure that any assets including the estate are dealt with as is in the terms of my mothers will.

And that if they I can as an benefactor take them to court but that would only be if my sisters failed to do their duty or ignored their obligations as executors. That is the months went by and my sisters refused to sell the house or give me any money that my mother has left to me in her will. Or of they are keeping my share of the money for themselves. Or did not deal with the estate properly.

The CAB said I am doing the right thing in going to a solicitor as the CAB is limited to what they can do. And can only advise. So I do need a Solicitor to deal with this. But that it is not funded by Legal Aid so I will have to pay for any solicitor I do see and any work he does it myself.
As Legal Aid does not cover Wills and Probate.

But I knew that anyway since I was told that by both the CAB advice line and the Probate Advice line before I went to my solicitor.
The woman adviser at the CAB also told me that the posts on this thread are not legal advise as the posters on here are not lawyers.

Annbarbs

I think you have assumed that people are saying that your sisters are in the right and you are in the wrong.


That is not the case at all. Yes you are entitled to what you have been left but and this is a big but, the sale of the house will take time even if it was put onto the market at the earliest opportunity.

The way I see your situation is that the only person gaining anything at the moment is your solicitor. I would mind betting that he's laughing all the way to the bank writing letters here there and everywhere for no real reason as well as having meetings with you.

As I said I cannot talk to my
sisters myself because I don't get on with them and my sisters don't want any contact with me. And won't even open the door to me if I go round to see them.

So I have not choice but to go through a solicitor since my sisters are executors of the will not me. And I cannot talk to them myself.

Also I cannot talk to my sisters solicitors either as they won't have any conversions with me.
And both my solicitor and the CAB says that my sisters solicitors don't have any obligation to speak to me.
Since they are solicitors that my sisters have employed and so are my sisters solicitors not mine.

That's why I have had to go and get a solicitor for myself which I have done.
Because I cannot talk to my sisters myself. And my sisters won't talk to me.