{"id":410908,"date":"2026-02-06T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:23:11","slug":"home-economics-the-executor-of-my-fathers-will-isnt-performing-their-duties-how-do-we-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410908\/","title":{"rendered":"Home economics: \u2018The executor of my father\u2019s will isn\u2019t performing their duties \u2013 how do we proceed?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Our property finance expert answers your questions\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;Assigning executors is a serious process. I\u2019d always advise asking them whether they are prepared to take on this burden.&quot; Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aab59eaa-ea83-4162-985c-7c14037dd11f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;Assigning executors is a serious process. I\u2019d always advise asking them whether they are prepared to take on this burden.&#8221; Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There are two executors on my father\u2019s will. One has signed with a solicitor to say they don\u2019t want to be executor and the other is refusing to be an executor or legally remove themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our property finance expert answers your questions &#8220;Assigning executors is a serious process. I\u2019d always advise asking them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4176,24121,4174,4175,105033,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-410908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-money-experts","11":"tag-personal-finance","12":"tag-personalfinance","13":"tag-sinead-ryan","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}