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Are there any other executors? Is the solicitor a soke practioner or part of a firm? Are you and your fellow beneficiaries behaving well? You will want to take proper legal advice (which this is not) but you can have an executor removed by the court if they are refusing to communicate with you. I would just do that. Tell him you are doing it, tell him you have reported him to the Law Society (if you have) and tell him you will be challenging his fees with the legal services ombudsman. This all sounds outrageous to me and this solicitor doesn't sound fit to practice. Three years sounds far too long for a low value estate comprising mostly of a house. He should have sold that or rented it out whilst he was waiting to administer the estate. Sounds like he has cost you all a lot of money. -
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A solicitor is acting as the executor for our late Aunt's will. He only communicates by letter which is greatly lengthening the process. The vast majority of legal people deal by modern means - the Electronic Communications Act that allows for much, if not all of these means is now 25 years old. Any views and advice out there? In fuller detail: The value of the estate is not high. There are a number of beneficiaries including one in the US. It has taken almost three years and there is no end in sight. The estate (house) is now damp, mouldy and wall paper falling off the wall. The solicitor is hostile, has threatened beneficiaries the police (which would just waste the police's time), and will not engage constructively. He only communicates by letter. These are poorly written, curt or even hostile, in a language from the middle of last century, he clearly is typing these himself probably on a type writer. Of course with every letter he makes more money. We've taken the first steps to complain either through the ombudsman and/or the SRA. We have taken legal advice a couple of times, which of course isn't cheap, and were told that his behaviour is shocking and we'd be in our right to have him removed through the courts. But.... we just want him to get on with executing the will, primarily selling the house. However he refuses to use any other form of communication but letter. So writing to the beneficiary in the 'States can take a month to get a reply. And even in this country a week or more. Having worked with lawyers in the past I am aware that email, tele and video conferencing and even text and WhatApp are appropriate means for communication. There could be an immediate response to his questions. Help!
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