Will/trust changed after death

[AnonymousA1]

I just found out my Step family changed my mums trust after she died meaning they got the whole house when mum left her share to us. We are named beneficiaries. I have this in writing from the solicitor who allowed it ?
I don’t have the money for a solicitor and they are fully aware of this. Is there anyone who can offer me any advice please ?

Sorry, I've no experience here, but my first thought was that sirely if you have such concrete evidence like that, you could go to court yourself without a lawyer? There's some great posters on here though with extensive law knowledge so will hopefully be along soon

Legal cover on house insurance ?

Surely that’s fraudulent? Have you a copy of the deeds?

Did the solicitor give any info about why they did that? I mean, that's a pretty huge thing to just casually admit to. Have they justified it in some way?!

What do you mean by your mums ‘trust’?

@notapizzaeater thank you ! I hadn’t thought of that , I will call them tomorrow and see what they say x

@pompypomppomp thank you x

@LadyGaGasPokerFace i have a copy of the will and a copy of emails between solicitors :)

@GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut i have the email trail where the solicitor admits to it to another party x

@Soontobe60 her will was left in Trust for us. The trustee changed the will x

Seems like there's some info missing here... a will cannot be varied without beneficiary consent, the deed of variation wouldn't be valid without this.

How could they change the will? This sounds odd..Were they trustees and/or executors of the will trust by any chance?

If you could post the wording of the will obviously leaving out anything identifying, or give a summary of the terms it might help in giving advice/information.

Breach of trust, trustees liable and whoever has knowingly received the subject property of trust to pay you back in equity

@YouDoYouHun there is absolutely no missing information. I am aware the beneficiaries are meant to agree to any changes … I am the beneficiary and didn’t even know until now. Solicitor allowed it.

@Atishoos yep trustees and executors.

it read “my residuary estate to be left to my daughter “

her residuary estate consisted of the house half hers half his.
a couple insurance policies
2 cars
bank accounts

we seen nothing and the house has been sold.
All profit to my step family.

@Halose and the solicitor for allowing it ? X

The solicitor can't have allowed it because the deed needed to effect this change wouldn't be valid without beneficiary signature. Without a valid deed of variation probate cannot be applied for and without grant of probate the house wouldn't be able to be transferred - the land registry simply wouldn't accept the transfer deed therefore something is amiss. Unless there was another will and you aren't named as beneficiary so didn't need to consent.

who mentioned the solicitor being involved ? My guess is there isn’t one on the matter

It’s correct the Executors can change the Will after death (a deed of variation), but the beneficiaries affected must agree. I’d contact the solicitor definitely.

Or unless your mum jointly owned the property with someone who is still living who has a life interest in your mum's share of the property?

Who were the executors?

@YouDoYouHun .

there is an email trail where the solicitor states mr x is concerned the property xxx was meant to be in his name only. I will apply to have the trustee restriction (or words to that effect ) removed.

the house has been sold and not one penny of mums half has been put in the trust. It’s all gone to step family.

the email is on my work computer so my wording might be slightly out :/

@Halose the solicitor agreed to it.

Or if your mum owned property jointly with someone else and the property was held as joint tenants it wouldn't matter what the will says, property ownership overrides this so the surviving owner is 100% property owner

@Christmascracker0 i am the beneficiary and I didn’t know until after the house had been sold :(