Seeking out alleged beneficiary?

[northj]

Father-in-law died intestate. My wife is only known child. Our solicitor received a letter from another solicitor making them aware of the possible existence of another named son.
We used an agency to search for the named person including their birth certificate on which the fathers name is blank. Our solicitor is keen for us to contact the person but my wife feels she has done enough as it has been six months and he has not come forward. However, our solicitor now says that because they received the letter from the other solicitors, that they are under legal notice and so the alleged son has to be contacted because he can sue them if he eventually comes forward. Is this correct? If we changed solicitors, would we still have to seek him out? (more time and money). My wifes view is that she would place money aside as contingency should he ever come forward. Any advice?

[zmudge]

There is a time limit of 12 years from the end of the "Administrators Year" for an initial claim to be submitted although claims made within 30 years are processed at the discretion of the Court. Once a claim is submitted and accepted then there is no time limit to abide by. I suspect that there is much more to know about the 1st paragraph of your statement, so will just leave it at that you really should do as your solicitor says. The other actions you propose are worthless. The solicitor and your wife could be (very expensively) sued jointly and severally if the son is bona-fide and she is seen to be conspiring to frustrate his claim.

With compliments zmudge