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Estate administration: what can go wrong.
My company, Celtic Research has had some problems recently with estates that have either been administered by family members or by so-called "heir hunters" who haven't been in the business long enough to know what they are doing.
One case where an heir on one side of the family got the admin although we had signed the majorit of the heirs on the other side was where that heir decided that you took the sum total of heirs and divided the money equally between each one! And the first thing I knew about it was when the heirs got paid and we got our fee.
I've also got someone who claims to be an heir hunter and submitted a claim to our administrator on the basis of "this is a list of heirs; please give them the money and send me my fee." No family tree, (I eventually got one apparently scrawled on a roll of wallpaper) no certificates and copies of his agreements which committed him to nothing except getting his fee! The estate's worth about £5,000 and there are over 60 heirs so some of them will spend more money proving their claim than they will receive.
Heaven protect us from people who got into the business after series 1 thinking they would make a fortune in three weeks.
