HOW AND WHAT TO EMAIL ME: Please email your inheritance horror stories to me at stories@MrInheritance.com (a relatively secure protonmail email account). As many stories as you wish on any before- and or after-death inheritance issue. You can be accredited or not. You and the story can be eunonymous, pseudononymous or anonymous. Please keep each story short and substantive on the lines of the examples below. I'll post your stories on this page, maybe after some judicious editing. Thanks!
1: my first inheritance err: executor not paying attention, her lawyer overpays heirs
1989-ish: My maternal grandmother ZB apparently left me £100. ZB's will's executor BA had chosen badly and wasn't paying attention. Her lawyer (??) paid me out £200 (and asked for it back. Riiiight.). Apparently she — the lawyer — was thrown out of the profession and went to prison. First inheritance lessons: (1) the testator to choose the executor wisely; (2) the executor to choose her helpers wisely (and stay away from lawyers unless necessary: they usually are not); (3) the lucky heir gets to keep a marginally erroneous payment; (4) the executor is personally liable to the estate for any financial misfeasance; (5) the heirs must insist on genuinely full complete whole-truth honest pellucid real-time executor accounts with all underlying primary source material, and must scrutinise, analyse, evaluate, verify and gross- and net-value the merits of every relevant transaction.
2: triple trouble: testator conned by three dud specialist lawyers; his wills' executor conned by two dud specialist lawyers, works it out for himself
American lawyer (JD) practising dubiously in London advises testator MH, an American living in London, that he needs a New Jersey will. Wrong. Two solicitors (JH, JR1) in an English law firm in Dorset advise MH that he also needs an English will. Right about the English will; wrong about two wills and an American will. Confusion and trouble for the future! MH pays all three deadbeat shysters. Dies. MH's two wills' executor (PM) hires Big City full-of-shit lawyer (JR2; clicking heels) and his dumkopf sagely ruminating bovine female assistant (DBS) to assist. They see the openings and make more trouble over the illusorily technically difficult two wills — oh, how they churned it! — and bill outrageously criminally (when I visited them to protest, I got a smug 'We used to weigh the file'. I bet you did, John, I bet you did). PM fires JR2 and DBS and hires another fancy lawyer (AP) who quickly advises, correctly, what PM had already worked out for himself: tear up the New Jersey will. Criminal billing, lies, incompetence, more lying, more cheating, more criminal billing, outrageous dishonesty from one US lawyer (JD) and four English solicitors (JH, JR1, JR2, DBS). I wonder who else these lawyers have screwed. I wonder who they're screwing now.