Soldato
My brother died a few years back.
Thing is, I know he left what he described as a complex will. However, mistake one, no one but his wife knows where it is.
Not that I am going to get anything, but we (the extended family) know that he left his kids a very substantial amount of money. My brother was a real dot the i, cross the t sort of person. He would not make a will if it could not be executed, so we don't think he would leave anything "joint" to the kids. So the decision is not hers, and the will should be followed.
We don't know what is joint owned and what isn't, but suspect there is at least one house that was his sole property (that she is now receiving income from because it feeds in to a joint account).
Thing is that his wife has done nothing but spend money on holidays since he died (she has been on ten holidays in two years!). She hasn't executed the will. She doesn't have probate. The kids have received nothing. There's a lot of concern in the family that she has no intention of ever executing the will.
One thing she did say was that there is a considerable sum in shares that she can not access, which we know would be covered in the will.
But where does this leave the kids? What can they do?
Thing is, I know he left what he described as a complex will. However, mistake one, no one but his wife knows where it is.
Not that I am going to get anything, but we (the extended family) know that he left his kids a very substantial amount of money. My brother was a real dot the i, cross the t sort of person. He would not make a will if it could not be executed, so we don't think he would leave anything "joint" to the kids. So the decision is not hers, and the will should be followed.
We don't know what is joint owned and what isn't, but suspect there is at least one house that was his sole property (that she is now receiving income from because it feeds in to a joint account).
Thing is that his wife has done nothing but spend money on holidays since he died (she has been on ten holidays in two years!). She hasn't executed the will. She doesn't have probate. The kids have received nothing. There's a lot of concern in the family that she has no intention of ever executing the will.
One thing she did say was that there is a considerable sum in shares that she can not access, which we know would be covered in the will.
But where does this leave the kids? What can they do?