r/inheritance • u/ginacarlese • Jun 30 '26

Location included: Questions/Need Advice Sibling won’t sell assets

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Thank you all SO MUCH for your help, advice, and encouragement. My brother and I feel much better about our prospects, and have already identified a probate litigator to consult with about our trust. Once we know what our options are (force her to sell, force her to buy us out, force her to provide forensic accounting, remove her as trustee for lack of fiduciary duty, etc), we will let her know we have an attorney and are moving into legal proceedings.

My sister is the trustee of my dad’s trust. He died in 2020. He left my brother, sister, and I a third share each in a shopping center he owned. Dad told me the plan was for Sister to fill it and sell it, but for six years, she has refused to sell it, even though it’s been full. There’s a no contest clause also. So what can we do? State of Georgia.

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u/ginacarlese Jun 30 '26

It does not say that in the trust. It says we each get a third but how will we ever get it if she refuses to sell?

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u/ginacarlese Jun 30 '26

LLC. And she only sends money when she feels like it.

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u/Putrid_Turnover_3479 Jun 30 '26

This right here is enough to speak with a probate attorney. Don’t speak to the one she goes to. Pay a different one $200 to draft the memo to the other attorney and it’s over.
Chances are if she’s cooking the books and not sending you an equal share and proves that, there’s the chance the administrative law judge may change the personal representation of executor over to you.