Solicitor slow over probate

The s**t finally hits the fan!!! :eek: Firm has been closed down and S1's partner has been struck off for a number of reasons, :eek::eek::eek: here's a little taster from the local paper:

The 13 allegations against (S1's partner) included:

Raising invoices in respect of costs and transferred money from clients’ accounts to the office account when there was no reason to do so;

Withdrawing funds from a general client account when funds withdrawn exceeded amounts held on behalf of client;

Failing to disburse residues of wills for a significant number of years;

Retaining client money when there was no reason to retain;

Failing to deal with client money appropriately;

Failing to deal appropriately with the registration of a mortgage;

Failing to establish and maintain proper accounting systems;

Failing to co-operate with the SRA in checking compliance;

Acting for both sides in a conveyancing transaction without appropriate written authority.

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More news too, but am so weary (MiL in hospital after a fall) don't have energy enough to share yet. Other than looks as if we are finally on the road to completion!

Yet another "sort of" update...

OH got in touch with S2 today. There is another hold up which I don't feel able to comment on right now. As much as anything this is a placeholder for me to find should I need to. Will come back to this when I feel more able to.

But I will just fill you all in on a couple of things to do with S1. His partner has been struck off, S1 had to pay maximum fine though didn't get struck off. Firm has closed down. Oh, and S1 is now being investigated by the Office for Judicial Complaints.

And as for my title to this thread, take a look at this!

To quote: "In the case of Mrs B, who died in January 1993, £14,440.25 remained in a designated deposit account and was not distributed for 14 years." :eek:

Well I finally have good news! :j

About a month ago we had the final estate accounts from S2, and a final cheque for the balance. :beer: Not a huge cheque, but enough to have a bit of fun frittering away! This would have been cleared up several months earlier, but a letter arrived for my Dad at their old flat, new owner very kindly got in touch and forwarded it on to us. So it was some more paperwork (unclaimed dividends for shares that were sold years ago, well before parents died, value approx £40 <rolls eyes>) that needed finishing off before the estates could be finalised.

It feels very strange now to think that it's finally all done and dusted! :cool:

Just after we heard about it by sheer chance I spotted an offer on Am*z*n local for 2 nights in a hotel near Dolgellau (where Mum was born and lived till she married Dad) that my parents went to for a number of years for Christmas, so we've booked that in May. It's a very beautiful part of North Wales, and I haven't spent much time there since I was aged 11, so am looking forward to that. :j And I think my parents would approve of that bit of spending. I just hope that it doesn't rain the whole time we're there! :rotfl:

I would like to thank all of you who have followed this long journey we've been on, and who have given me so many suggestions and so much support over the years! :A :T Without all your help we wouldn't be living in the home we now have, I have no words really to express my gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this very long thread.

THANK YOU ALL! :T :T :T :A :A :A :j