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  1. My dad passed on at the end of April. He made a will two years ago, and appointed his bank (HSBC) and his solicitor as joint executors. The solicitor has always seemed a good guy, my dad had a good relationship with him, and he gave my wife and I a free consultation a few years ago when we had trouble with a council tax issue. As an only child I turned out to be the sole beneficiary of the will (my mum having died a few years ago), so the solicitor suggested that with my permission they revoke their right as executor in favour of me, and said he would write to the HSBC to suggest they do the same, to generally speed things up and hopefully save me money. The HSBC want to meet me to discuss this (possibly to attempt todissuade me from requesting them to revoke as I'm sure they want to offer me their probate services,) which they are doing this coming thursday. Up until a few hours ago my gut instinct was to go with whatever the solictor suggested. However..... The lady at the funeral director that we used is an old family friend, and says that this particular solicitor is a nightmare! I passed the funeral bill on to him as soon as I received it several months ago, he told my wife and I at our first consultation that it would be paid straight away. However, whenever the funeral director lady has rang to ask about payment he keeps fobbing her off and making excuses- according to her it is not the first time he has done this, and he is basically slow at everything in general, and will be charging me interest. I am in a bit of a quandary now, who do I trust? Solicitor, bank, funeral director?! Anyone got any advice please? I've never been in this situation before so am a wee bit lost! Thanks
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