Request for accounting during probate

s7ryf3925pivug

How do you submit a request for accounting during probate? Do you have to actually go to court, or do you just submit a form?

s7ryf3925pivug

...is that even something that they do in Ireland, or am I confusing something I found on google..? Is there anything similar here if not?

coylemj

Are you an executor doing personal probate or, if not, what exactly are you looking for?

If you are doing personal probate, you're seriously off track.

Peregrinus

The estate accounts are typically drawn up at the end of the administration process. If you have a very large estate with a long-drawn out administration you might prepare accounts, say, annually during the administration, but this isn't usual.

The administrator prepares the accounts (or has them prepared by his advisers). They are given to the residuary legatees, but others are not normally entitled to see them. They are not normally filed in court, SFAIK.

s7ryf3925pivug

Thanks. I'm a residuary beneficiary. It's 18 months now and I'm still being fobbed off or ignored when I ask for basic info. I found this on a solicitor's site:

After the expiry of a year any beneficiary can call upon the executor to give an account of his actions and the onus lies on the executor to substantiate reasons for the delay.

Does this mean he's obliged to answer when I ask what's taken so long, or does it just mean I can take him to court? (I'm aware I can choose take him to court for losses incurred by the delay and by other mismanagement as well as interest.)

Peregrinus

Arely Gray Vase wrote: »

Does this mean he's obliged to answer when I ask what's taken so long, or does it just mean I can take him to court?

These aren't alternatives; they're the same thing. "He's obliged to answer" means "if he doesn't answer, you can go to court and get an order compelling him to answer".