england-and-wales probate
How to get the solicitors who wrote the will to respond to a Larke v Nugus request?
<p>Is there a valid reason to withhold a <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/content/101713" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Larke v Nugus</a>  request when there is no personal representative?  Imagine the situation where a person in England dies testate and:</p>
<ul>
<li>All executors have renounced their positions.</li>
<li>Residual beneficiaries are a number of separate charities.</li>
<li>None of the residual beneficiaries have agreed to act as the
deceased's personal representative.</li>
<li>The solicitors who wrote the will refuse to respond to a Larke v
Nugus request from the deceased's family (next-of-kin) on the basis
of there being no personal representative.</li>
</ul>
<p>How can the next-of-kin get the solicitors who wrote the will to respond to the Larke v Nugus request?  Could a Legacy beneficiary act as the deceased's personal representative.</p>

<p><strong>How can the next-of-kin get the solicitors who wrote the will to respond..?</strong></p>
<p>By the most appropriate person applying to be the Personal Representative and then making the request.</p>
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<p>... if the people appointed as executors are unwilling or unable to act, the estate will instead be sorted out by an administrator. The administrator will usually be a close relative of the person who has died, if there is one. In order to be an administrator, the person must apply for a Grant of <strong>Letters of Administration from the court</strong> which grants the power to unfreeze the assets and administer the estate. <a href="https://www.bereavementadvice.org/topics/personal-representatives/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source</a></p>
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