Myself and my eldest brother are executors for our late fathers will.

His file and deeds to his house and land are held with the SRA. To get them back we BOTH needed to sign to retrieve them and have them held somewhere we mutually agreed upon (a solicitors office)

My brother is a nasty character, threatening, intimidating and greedy. There’s a lot of history and back story but I’ll try and keep this short.

A dispute has now arisen on my father’s estate from another beneficiary. He has a very strong case and my eldest brother knows it.

I have just been informed by my solicitor’s firm that my brother has managed to put a request in for the entirety of our father’s deeds and file and authorised them to go to his daughter! They sent the same email to my brother who has obviously shit himself and put a stop to the claim. I haven’t signed anything to authorise this, I haven’t sent ID or my written authority so how on earth has this happened? All I can think is that it’s attempted fraud and he has forged my signature and documents.

The SRA have advised me that as of this morning, the original request has been deactivated.

Is there anyway that I can get this investigated? I’m in between solicitors at the moment and meeting my new solicitor on Monday for the first time (same firm) however I have emailed her to let her know of the update. Even though the claim has been deactivated it’s only because he’s been found out and the intent was still there. He has evidently also implicated others.

There is a catalogue of other things he has done in the time since my father’s death and we have also recently been in receipt of planning documents which prove he has committed fraud before.

Any advice?