Ask a solicitor: My brother is not engaging after our father's death

Is there anything that can be done where one executor is abroad and not co-operating?

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.