‘I think my sibling forged a lease for the family farm after our mother died. As an executor of the will, what can I do?’

‘My sibling was unhappy they didn’t get the whole farm and is drawing down farm payments based on the lease. I want to sort this out – without landing any of us in court’

‘I urge you to take action immediately, as the longer this goes on the more difficult it will be to resolve’. Photo: Getty

Mary Frances Fahy

Query: I am a co-executor of my mother’s will, and the family has recently been put in a difficult position by one of my siblings. My mother died a number of years ago leaving a farm in the west of Ireland.

On reading the will we assumed it would be divided among all the children, but one sibling thought differently.