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It's time for another Family Thing update:
The solicitor for my grandmother's estate wanted to push through the sale of the house to my father as quickly as possible. But they needed my uncle's signature for that. He, to nobody's surprise, made several demands before he would even consider signing, The solicitor let my father know and together they decided that the solicitor would email my uncle telling him that if he doesn't sign we'll go to court, again, not only demanding he'll sign (there are two recent rulings he has to sell) but that he pays for the legal costs incurred during this round at court.
One of the things he wants is to immediately settle my grandmother's estate. In other words, he wants money. In their email the solicitor also casually mentions some things has to be paid to the estate before that can happen, without going into detail. My uncle will think that's about the €5000 he had promised to pay back over a year ago. He still doesn't know we want to go after him for €25000 for the insurances and the sex dating websites.
The solicitor looked into the cost of another court case. They estimate it'll cost another €4000 and will take up to year, maybe longer due to the Covid-19 situation. Since there are two recent rulings that my uncle has to agree to sell there might be a chance to go for a fast tracked court case, which is quicker.
We also talked to our lawyer, who would prefer to hit two birds with one stone and merge the case of getting my uncle signature with the case of getting the €25000, but then the fast track isn't possible. So we'll wait with that.
Yesterday the solicitor agreed to call my uncle and see if they can persuade him to sign. We're not going to negotiate anymore, that's useless and my uncle would try to drag that on endlessly. If he doesn't agree to sign our lawyer will write to my uncle's lawyer to let him know the next court case is being prepared if he can't get his client to do what the judge told him to do.
If things are going to be settled ASAP (not likely, I think) my father and aunt end up with a couple of thousand euros if my uncle only pays back the €5000, if he pays back the €25000 (snowball in hell chance) they get around €100000 each. But knowing my uncle he'll go for the court case, try to drag it on, blame everything on my aunt (he knows he'll hurt her by doing so) and will probably try to change the direction of the court case to try and make the judge block the sale to my father. With the rulings we've had over the years we've got a greater chance of winning (though you never know). But the chances of my uncle paying back even an euro of what he owes the estate are close to zero, I think.
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