NC for this, it's a sensitive matter.
A relative died last year. A year before he died, he told me he had changed his will, as he was unhappy with some close family members. He told me because he was expressing his frustration and upset, and also because what he changed it to would be advantageous to me and three others (not in my family) instead. His solicitor is a friend of the family members he was unhappy with.
Now, I don't know for a fact if he did really change his will at all. Maybe he didn't, and just said it. The will that has been carried out is the "old" will. The family members are the executors of this will. They have got everything.
If he had changed his will, does it have to have been filed somewhere? Is there any public record of that will, or the one which was executed? Is there anything I can do to check any of this without speaking to the family members or the solicitor/their close friend?