Glad you got the response you wanted Op.
My DC were beneficiaries of a cousins will 2yrs ago. Following final payment in Feb, my DD was the only under-age beneficiary, so we were asked to take over control of her money.
It took from Feb to end of Nov to get the money!!! To say the solicitor was incompetent was an understatement. Emails would get answered after a month, phone calls - well if we got through to him he would discuss, but invariably it was his secretary who would 'pass the message on'.
I actually posted on here in April/May time, asking if I should make a formal complaint. I was v close twice, but each time he got his act together just in time.
The final payment was a cheque, despite him having made an interim payment electronically to a trust account we had opened specifically to receive the money. The cheque had my DHs name on, despite the trust account only being in my name (impossible to get a trust acc for a 16yo with both parents named, almost impossible to get one at all, by 16 they are expected to manage their own money. But cant receive an inheritence)
I told the solicitor before we opened the account that it would only have my name on it. Still he put both our names on the cheque. Grrrr. Fortunately the bank accepted the cheque.
One of the other beneficiaries has a common name, but slightly different spelling. It was wrong in initial correspondence, she told the solicitor (a lady who was replaced by man above when she went on Mat leave). Both her payments had wrong name on cheque.
Whilst this was going on, I was also sorting my mums estate and selling her house. We used different solicitors, but in same town, across road from ones above. The difference was like chalk and cheese.