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Can a solicitor withhold documents (grant of probate)?

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ChotaPeg · 21/07/2019 17:27

Hello - I'd be grateful for some advice. I'm not going to include all the details (boring and long) but I'm curious about whether a solicitor can withhold sending a grant of probate to me (I am the executor, they have "supported" me with the application) until we have agreed their costs? Not that I am necessarily disputing costs (although the goalposts seem to be unilaterally shifting on the fixed fee arrangement I thought we had agreed) but rather I am concerned the tone of their correspondence is that they will only send the grant of probate to me when the costs have been agreed. Solicitors out there - is this usual practice?

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GOODCAT · 21/07/2019 21:48

You can obtain an official copy of the grant online for a small fee.

Collaborate · 22/07/2019 07:34

They are entitled to hold on to your papers until you pay their costs.

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