Kookaburra Oven

[Halex]

Well done Mich.

Maybe the solicitor can tell us about a percentage for being executor.

 

[cookie1]

When Mum died we just put it all in the hands of the solicitor. They didn't charge very much at all and it was a fairly big job.

[droverjess]

Over here everything has to be valued for probate. A sale rooms usually can value items.
Executors over here can claim expenses but not %.

How sad and good luck.
We chose our things in turn, like drawing lots, now I know where we're finally ending up I might have chosen differently by c'est la vie!!! It's fun seeing pieces of home in all the other houses and down to the next generation too.

[Lucyluu]

Just a note on getting a solicitor..If there is any money eg. bank accounts, investements etc, make sure that it does not stay in the solicitors trust acct. for too long.  My mothers estate was sometime getting settled due to a family dispute after it was all settled the executor worked out there should have been some seventhousand dollars in interest earned for the estate. The solicitor didn't bother to inform her of the nature of the solicitors trust fund It is not an interest bearing acct. As executor she could have opened an acct. and earned all that interest for the estate. No one was destitute because of this but it would have been helpful if the solicitor had informed the executor. Just one of the many, many  problems we had with him.

[Halex]

Thank you Lucyluu, a very good tip

[cookie1]

My Nan had an oven like that. I sort of remember it. She went to heaven in about 1951/2.

[achookwoman]

Mum had a stove just like that, house built in 1939.