Our father died September 2017. He engaged a Will writing company to be his executor and we had an initial meeting with her and exchanged a few emails which gradually dwindled to nothing. We didn’t receive our inheritance.
Fast forward to this year and sent less than a third of it in November with the promise to send the rest this month. In the meantime she has left the country and no one else in the company will help.
There is still over £200k owed to us and she gone silent again. My question is can we make a statutory demand from her and force her to declare bankruptcy so that her finances can be looked at? I’m not a legal person so I don’t know if I’ve understood correctly. I know there is a 6 year limit but we’re hoping some allowance will be given for Covid.
The other option will be to go to small claims court but that will cost us £10k and I really need to keep as much as the money as possible.
Thanks in advance.