completing terms of will

[joeyt15]

my wife's father passed away in april 2000. he named the daughter of his deceased wife to handle the will. the will stated that she was to sell the house and divide the proceeds evenly between my wife, her sister (his natural children) and 3 of his deceased wife's children (they were never adopted by him). to this date she has done nothing to fulfil the wishes of the will. when my wife questioned her about it after about 6 months she threatened to have her removed from the will. they are located in georgia. i am wondering if there is a time limit on her taking action or if we have any way to see that she handles it the way the will stated. as far as we know, no probate has been filed. please help. and thanks!

 

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my wife's father passed away in april 2000. he named the daughter of his deceased wife to handle the will. the will stated that she was to sell the house and divide the proceeds evenly between my wife, her sister (his natural children) and 3 of his deceased wife's children (they were never adopted by him). to this date she has done nothing to fulfil the wishes of the will. when my wife questioned her about it after about 6 months she threatened to have her removed from the will. they are located in georgia. i am wondering if there is a time limit on her taking action or if we have any way to see that she handles it the way the will stated. as far as we know, no probate has been filed. please help. and thanks!

My response:

You'll need to hire a Probate attorney in Georgia to write her a firm letter that, in essence, instructs her to get off her butt, or that you'll open a Probate on your own, and the first order of business will be to have her removed as the Executor of the Will due to her failure to perform as the Will requires.

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