Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Virginia

Re: Beneficiary info

The executor would seem to be "steam-rolling" your mother into what the executor wants and not necessarily what's in your mother's best interests.

Their offer of a $24K buyout appears to be roughly half of what your mother's 1/4 interest in the property is really worth. The demand for the immediate payment of $6K from your mother for upkeep and maintenance for work which hasn't even been performed borders on the absurd.

Your mother (in my view) should refuse

these offers/demands and tell them to sell the house. If they want to do some remodeling/refurbishing before it's sold, your mother would agree to a reasonable share of this expense but she must be given a reasonable estimate

of what her share might be before the work is to proceed.

If no agreement can be reached on any

of these issues which reasonably protects your mother's 1/4 share interest in the property, she should simply tell the executor to proceed with an executor's sale of the property

and deposit the sale proceeds in the estate account.