On 07/07/2015 18:32, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
GB has brought this to us :
On 07/07/2015 15:00, Adrian wrote:

That's not your problem at the moment, though - you need to get the
solicitors to renounce their executor status.


They might *possibly* renounce, but what will induce them to?
Solicitors write wills cheaply, as a sprat to catch a mackerel, the
mackerel being the lucrative executorship work.

Which was exactly as happened in this case - £60 when they originally
drew it up.


They can really only be removed if they act incompetently, which they
probably won't. They can argue that their client was your late partner,
not the beneficiaries, and they are just carrying out your late
partner's wishes in acting as executor. It's a pretty unassailable position.

Your position is slightly stronger, because you are named as a
co-executor. I think you should just negotiate that you will do a lot of
the spade-work and that they will charge on a time-cost basis, rather
than some percentage.