Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Georgia

Re: Probate

If the will needs to be probated (i.e., there are debts, or she owned real property), your brother will need to execute a renunciation of his appointment, and another heir at law will need to offer the will for probate and ask to be appointed as admnistrator with the will annexed (or, if the will names a successor executor, the successor executor does this).

If the will does not require probate, the estate can be distributed by agreement, if all of the heirs at law (including your parents, any siblings other than your brother, your aunts and uncles, and your grandfather, if he is living) can agree. If they can't agree, the will must be probated.

Re: Probate

This is not difficult, but explaining it in this type of forum is difficult. Consult with an attorney in the county in which your grandmother lived at the time of her death.