About Mary Molloy Solicitors

The TEP Credential

The practice is led by Richard O’Shea, Solicitor and qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) — the designation of STEP, the international professional body for specialists in wills, trusts and estate administration. It is the credential built for precisely this work: the technical spine of the Succession Act, the machinery of grants and administration, and the litigation that follows when either goes wrong. In a field where most content is written by generalists, the TEP letters mean the person answering your question does this work as a specialism, not a sideline.

Richard also holds a Diploma in Mediation from the Law Society of Ireland — and in inheritance disputes that pairing is deliberate. These cases are families: siblings, second marriages, the farm, the home place. Litigation is prepared properly from day one, because prepared litigation is what makes settlement honest — and mediation is kept genuinely available for as long as you want the door out of war kept open. It is never pressure; it is an option that belongs on the table in family disputes more than anywhere else in law.

How These Files Are Run

Clocks first: estate disputes carry some of the strictest time limits in Irish law — the six-month section 117 window above all — so every file starts with the deadline map. Documents decide: the will file, the solicitor’s attendance notes, the medical records, the bank statements — these cases are won on paper, and assembling it is the first real work. Honest arithmetic early: realistic prospects, realistic costs and the costs-risk rules of probate litigation, explained before you commit — never after proceedings issue. And no tax advice, ever: inheritance tax questions go to your accountant and Revenue’s published guidance; we work alongside them.

Our Offices

Dublin: The Ormond Building, 31-36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7 (D07 EE37) — minutes from the Probate Office and the Four Courts, where this work lives. Kilkenny: 2 Rose Inn Street (R95 W58D). We act nationwide: the Dublin Probate Office serves Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow, and contested estates from every county end up in the High Court in Dublin. Call 01 5827148 or see the contact page.

Talk to the Specialist Credential

One confidential call: your position, the doors, the clocks, and the honest arithmetic - before you commit to anything.