Probate and estates done properly: grants, farms, contested wills and the administrations others find difficult.
Mary Molloy Solicitors handles probate and estate administration from Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny: grants through the District Probate Registry and the Probate Office, farm and land estates, section 117 claims and will challenges, cross-border estates, and the trusts wills leave behind. Solicitor-led and TEP-qualified.
The serious end of probate
Most estates are process; some estates are problems. This practice does both, and is built for the second kind: farms that must pass intact, wills that will be challenged, six-month claim windows, executors under attack, beneficiaries scattered across jurisdictions, and trusts that run for decades after the grant. The work is disclosure, valuation, documentation and judgement, and it is described plainly across these pages.
grants of probate and letters of administration, the Probate Office and District Probate Registries, the SA.
valuing land, stock and entitlements, the farming successor, sales of land from estates, and disputes between farming and non-farming siblings.
testamentary capacity, undue influence, due execution, caveats and probate actions.
when a child can seek provision from a parent's estate, the moral duty test, the strict six-month time limit, and defending claims as executor.
collecting assets, paying debts in the correct order, assents and land transfers, the executor's year and personal representatives' liability.
Irish grants for foreign-resident executors and beneficiaries, UK-Irish estates, second grants, foreign wills and assets abroad.
Solicitor and Trust and Estate Practitioner
The practice is led by Richard O'Shea, Solicitor and TEP, a full member of STEP, the international professional body for trust and estate practitioners. Probate is not a sideline here: succession law, trusts and estate administration are the discipline itself, and the estates this site describes, farms, contested wills, cross-border grants, will trusts, are its daily work.
The mediation credential matters too. Estate disputes are family disputes, most of them settle, and a practice holding the Law Society Diploma in Mediation treats negotiated resolution as a professional method, not a concession.
About the practicePrepare before you instruct
Two working tools for executors and families: a probate preparation checklist that maps the documents and information every estate must assemble, including farm and cross-border items, and an estate timeline estimator showing the stages ahead. Both run in your browser and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.
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From Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny, the practice administers estates across Kilkenny, Carlow, Waterford, Tipperary and Wexford, and for families worldwide with Irish assets.