Ask a solicitor: My brother is not engaging after our father's death
Dear Jane
My father passed away last year and left a Will appointing my brother and me as joint executors. I live in Ireland and have always been involved in my father’s life and in helping him as he got older. My brother moved abroad many years ago and had little to no contact with my father in the last decade.
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