Grant first, Fight later.
This is what is wrong with BC's probate system. It is jumping the gun mentality, a lawyer gets a client and the first thing she does is serve a P1 Notice and before anyone realizes what is happening as the lawyer knows her client is conflicted and wants her to be appointed as it would be near impossible to get her to resign. Afterall that is what a lawyer's job is, to protect her client. The lawyer instructs her not to talk to anyone and her misdeeds are hidden. No one is perfect, so statistically there is always misdeeds. Misdeeds that can drain an estate of most of its monies. Get a grant by stealth because no one would appeal it. And most beneficiaries only want to get the probate over with without question. And the lawyers know that statistical fact. Hidden unauthorized expenses do not surface and the misdeeder and her lawyer get away with financial murder. And to make is worse, any committee would also get a pass if it misadministrated its fudiciary duties owed to the dead. If true fiduciary accounting was done, all parties who had part in the misdeeds would be surcharged and the monies would become estate funds payable to the beneficiaries.
