A family member I am estranged from has informed me a Solicitors company is trying to contact me about an item I have been left. However, my relative has refused to pass me the name, address or location of the solicitor in question or the original letter.
I have no idea at all where the company is likely to be based. Do solicitors keep any kind of 'wanted person' list I could be put on?
You could try checking for the relative's name in the London Gazette:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/
Woth a try, ta. Though I dont think any of my lot lived in the capital, but who knows!
Any other suggestions folks?
The LG covers the whole of the UK. The solicitors might have been required to put a notice in it if there were debt issues when your relative died, so it could be worth a shot.
Of course the notices section of the local paper is a good idea too...
Sure it's not a wind up? Someone who dislikes you says: "You've been left something, but we're not telling you how you can get it" sounds like a petty prank to me, or at the very least - just petty. Haven't you got someone on the inside who can get hold of the info for you?
They are interfering with the post, which I don't believe is strictly legal. I assume there's no way of finding out who you have been left it by. No other family members who might be able to help. Would your relative have been a point of contact (i.e. have you lived at their address)?
It does sound like a wind up. If they don't like you, why tell you that you'd had a letter and if they do, why not tell you the name/address.
Thanks for LG suggestion.
Yes, it could be a wind up, but after 5 years + of no contact, seems an odd time to bother or make the effort.... who knows. I suspect they want to bargain over the info and I would prefer to circumvent this. Item in question is of no monetary value, just one of those family objects.
Sorry, had thought it was London Gazette, not Law Gazette! Hopeless me!
You know the name of the relative presumably? If so, probate registry will get you the public copy of the will and the names of the executors.
Thanks for all the helpful comments folks.
