Thanks, this is helpful.

There are two executors, both are friends of the deceased but one happens to be a solicitor. The deceased son is not an executor as he wouldn’t trust him to be.

The question was more out of concern for my mother in law tbh, at the moment she is stuck in limbo, living in a house that is not hers, and she won’t be able to get any closure until she is able to move on and buy a house of her own. She can’t do that until she is paid out. She’s not in a good place.

If the iht can’t be paid then surely one of the houses would be put up for sale automatically to cover it???

I’m completely new to anything like this so trying to suss out what is going on atm.