Legal advice on how to recoup inheritance from lawyer?

Question

12 years ago my wife began taking care of an elderly woman in her
home,The woman passed on, leaveing my wife, an Inheritance.
The bulk of this womans estate, was an Inheritance, she had recieved from her brother, who passed on before her. Sale of a lake cottage, cash, made up the bulk of it. There where stocks and
bonds also. The lawyer who handled the estates of both the woman and her brother, says he's haveing trouble liquidating the
stocks and bonds that belonged to the brother of the woman.
This is holding up a large sum of money owed my wife as part of
the Inheritance. It has been 1 year and 5 months since the woman
died. Do you think this Lawyer is being honest with us, or not?
What should we do?

Answer 1

I would probably be wondering, too, especially if these are like any other stocks and bonds, which are usually traded electronically, and don't really have to be liquidated. Really, I can understand taking a little while to sell a cottage (especially in the winter, or if it hasn't been updated or 100% maintained). But maybe it's time to ask what, exactly, this person is doing, and why it is taking so long.