Ddad died 6 years' ago and in his will left everything including the house to 3 grandchildren - 2 are my DC, the other my nephew. They're now over 18.
The executor of the will is my sister. The will said she could stay in the house for a year and then sell the house and the proceeds go to the grandchildren. This didn't happen, she lived in the house rent free until a year or so ago then she moved into assisted living for mental health reasons.
She also cancelled the cleaner the day after my Ddad died. She doesn't clean, never has, she sees it as beneath her so the house is extremely dirty with thousands of spiders in residence. The garden no longer has a lawn, the brambles have taken over, sometimes they find a gap and spread into the house. The brambles have pushed all the fences down. The house is pretty much derelict.
What can I do to help my DC and DN get their inheritance?
Probate has gone through so, as I understand it, it would be difficult to change executor?
Would the solicitor my sister used be able to help in any way if we paid for an appointment? Or would confidentiality mean she couldn't speak to us?
Houses on the street go for around £500k. In it's now derelict state it's probably not worth more than £300k at auction but it would still be a decent amount of money to set the DC and DN up.
Is there anything I can do before the house falls down this winter?