Apologies in advance if this sounds like a bad soap opera, but legal minds amongst The Massive (or at least some who might have gone round the same loops) might point us in the right direction…

My wife’s mother died in a nursing home earlier this year, and had suffered for a few years with dementia. My wife has two siblings, both older, but for many & various reasons she has been out of touch with them for a number of years, and relations are hostile to the extent that my wife sadly felt she couldn’t even attend her mother’s funeral for fear of a confrontation…

My wife had been expecting to hear about her mother’s will (her father died over 30 years ago) but when she didn’t, she paid for a search, and has been told the last registered will goes back to 2003, but she can’t get an actual copy of the will without the approval of the executors, who are (you guessed it) her siblings, both of whom have refused (though intermediaries) to oblige to date, and my wife, not necessarily unreasonably, suspects they might try and somehow cheat her out of any bequest.

My queries are » Continue Reading.