Art_diesel
Member
Don't let any grass grow under your feet! You have some serious problems with this will and the estate. And one of the first things that I would do is to move to have the estate administered formally, that is, under supervised administration as provided by Idaho Code Section 15-3-501.
Which means that the administration and settlement of your father’s estate will be under “the continuing authority of the probate court”.
I would also have the attorneys examine the will to see if there is a possibility that it its execution fell short of the required formalities. If the document can somehow be disregarded, that would throw the estate into intestacy and you and your sister would qualify as PR’s and the niece and her husband would be out in the cold.
But you need to move quickly! An informal administration of an estate under the Uniform Probate Code (such as Idaho) is a license to steal! And it takes just a matter of hours or less to get those “Letters Testamentary” issued and certified by the clerk.
Can I do this even though my dad is still alive?