I am lodging this complaint on behalf of a friend of mine, Ms. Vivienne Huber, who resides in Scotland, for the expressed purpose of revealing how she has been subjected to neglect by the Executor of her father's estate and how she has been deprived of the use of her inheritance.
The Executor's name is Stuart McIlwraith, and he is represented by the law office of Brunton Miller out of Glasgow, Scotland. He was previously represented by the law office of Wright and Crawford, also of that city. It is my understanding that Mr. McIlwraith acts as a Trustee for a number of wealthy estates in the UK and abroad and that he was, at one time and may still be, associated with a company known as Martin Metals, a company dealing in non ferrous metals, as well as other entities. Martin Metals was formerly solely owned by Ms. Huber's father who passed on in 1992. Prior to Mr. Huber's sudden death, he had set up a trust arrangement with Mr. McIlwraith, who owned a company somewhat similar to Martin Metals, wherein Mr. McIlwraith would act as Trustee and Executor on behalf of Mr. Huber's survivors, his wife, who at the time of Mr. Huber's death was suffering from Alzheimer's, and his daughter, the Vivienne Huber mentioned above, who is now the sole surviving beneficiary.
Shortly after the demise of Ms. Huber's father, Mr. McIlwraith and his close associates began a course of action to discredit Ms. Huber's sanity. Their tactics consisted of having nurses in the family home, ostensibly for the purpose of caring for the senior Mrs. Huber, but also to keep her daughter under observation and to prevent her from leaving the home. Ms. Huber's attempts to leave the premises were dealt with by physically restraining her to the premises. After her mother's death, Ms. Huber was forced to live on the public dole in government housing. During all of the above times, Ms. Huber had requested specific information from the Executor of her father's estate, Mr. McIlwraith. She had repeatedly requested that he furnish her with an accounting of the assets of her father's estate, as well as periodic reports covering the income and expenditures of the Trust. Mr. McIlwraith failed and refused to apprise and inform Ms. Huber of the status of the Trust. Instead, McIlwraith and his associates have continued to stalk, harass and otherwise annoy and invade the privacy of Ms. Huber in a concerted attempt to defame her and raise questions as to her mental stability.
Ms. Huber has, for her part, conducted an ongoing campaign for a number of years to secure legal counsel. Her efforts have been severely handicapped due to the small amount of funds available to her through the Trust in that she is living from hand to mouth, from month to month, and does not have sufficient funds to engage the services of a solicitor. At the present time, she does not even have adequate cash to purchase food.
It is obvious here that McIlwraith's conduct as a Trustee is in question. If he had been acting in a forthright manner, it would have behooved him to make timely reports to the sole beneficiary of the Trust, Ms. Huber, and to inform her at all appropriate times of the status of the Trust and to maintain a proper professional relationship with her. Instead, he has chosen to ignore her requests for information to which she is entitled and by doing so has aroused suspicions as to his conduct and his integrity.
Ms. Huber is entitled to be informed and it is Mr. McIlwraith's duty to so inform her. Ms. Huber is in need of a solicitor to act on her behalf so that her present and future needs will be taken care of, which was the objective to which her father aspired when he set up the trust.
Prior to her father's death, Ms. Huber and her family enjoyed a degree of wealth which included homes in Scotland and Majorca, frequent travel and many of the finer things in life. It is pathetic that she should be reduced to living at a level where she can not afford food and is unaware of her true financial status.
Tracy
Garden Farms, California
U.S.A.
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