What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? TN
My grandfather passed away in January of this year, it took until April to get the will to probate. He owned no property only investments and life insurance.
They found one investment overlooked by the bank where they left my ex step grandmothers name on it. My father thought this was personal property and was in his name and going to him but the way I make out from hearsay they are trying to get her name off the investment. (Over $100k).
My thought is that it should go to the estate and be distributed as per my grandfathers instructions?
The problem is that I have been emailing the attorney for 3 weeks looking for an update letter explaining what is going on as it has now been in probate for 7 weeks. In 3 weeks he sent one email saying he was going to get out a letter. After 3 weeks i told him in a polite way that I would not try to contact him again and that I did not feel my best interests were being looked after and that he and my father seemed to be hiding information from the beneficiaries.
After that email he replied back with a "sorry I've been swamped". I replied that we (brother, sister, and I) wanted to have a list of investments and to know what was going on with the investment with the name mix up because my dad refuses to give us any information and we feel it is our right to know. When my dad filed he told us we would all have way more than needed to purchase a house and now he claims we may not be getting much of anything.
My brother sister and I want to know what is going on, we want to know why it seems something is being done behind our backs. The attorney says he has not put the information together to give us a list of estate holdings. He and my dad seem to be hiding something and avoiding questions about it, they both want to pretend they don't know what is going on with it, and I find that hard to believe.
So what can I do, my dad gave him all the information to go to probate including a list of holdings. There is not that many investments, maybe 3 so why does this attorney keep dodging the questions and seem to be using his lack of knowledge to prolong giving a straight answer ? Could they be trying to put the investment into my fathers name solely?
Are they hiding something or is it normal?
If it matters, the will lists me as executor if my father can not fulfill his duties.
My grandfather passed away in January of this year, it took until April to get the will to probate. He owned no property only investments and life insurance.
They found one investment overlooked by the bank where they left my ex step grandmothers name on it. My father thought this was personal property and was in his name and going to him but the way I make out from hearsay they are trying to get her name off the investment. (Over $100k).
My thought is that it should go to the estate and be distributed as per my grandfathers instructions?
The problem is that I have been emailing the attorney for 3 weeks looking for an update letter explaining what is going on as it has now been in probate for 7 weeks. In 3 weeks he sent one email saying he was going to get out a letter. After 3 weeks i told him in a polite way that I would not try to contact him again and that I did not feel my best interests were being looked after and that he and my father seemed to be hiding information from the beneficiaries.
After that email he replied back with a "sorry I've been swamped". I replied that we (brother, sister, and I) wanted to have a list of investments and to know what was going on with the investment with the name mix up because my dad refuses to give us any information and we feel it is our right to know. When my dad filed he told us we would all have way more than needed to purchase a house and now he claims we may not be getting much of anything.
My brother sister and I want to know what is going on, we want to know why it seems something is being done behind our backs. The attorney says he has not put the information together to give us a list of estate holdings. He and my dad seem to be hiding something and avoiding questions about it, they both want to pretend they don't know what is going on with it, and I find that hard to believe.
So what can I do, my dad gave him all the information to go to probate including a list of holdings. There is not that many investments, maybe 3 so why does this attorney keep dodging the questions and seem to be using his lack of knowledge to prolong giving a straight answer ? Could they be trying to put the investment into my fathers name solely?
Are they hiding something or is it normal?
If it matters, the will lists me as executor if my father can not fulfill his duties.
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