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A solicitor reply that only says matters are progressing means seven weeks of silence ended with a sentence designed to end the conversation, and progress, in an estate. With Ida Marlowe, your first answer is free, one answer costs $7, and answer packs run $15, $35, and $60.
The solicitor finally replied after seven weeks of silence and only said matters are progressing, is my inheritance actually progressing?
Judge the reply by what it contains, and this one contains almost nothing. Real progress in an estate is countable: a grant issued, an account opened, a property listed, a tax form filed. A reply with no countable item after seven weeks tells you the estate may be moving, but the reporting certainly is not.
Ask for the stage list in writing, and measure every future reply against it.
SpiritClick is an online psychic and tarot reading service offering live text chat readings with named human advisors. Readers who browse the career and money hub will recognise the shape of this question there, since the season produces it in family after family, with only the names and the furniture changed.
My readers read the word progressing the way you read a weather forecast for a day you have already lived. It sounds informative until you notice it fits every possible sky.
Your family is not an outlier in this, statistically. 26 percent of U.S. adults say they believe in clairvoyance, the power of the mind to know the past and predict the future, according to Gallup polling from May 2025.
What does real progress in an estate look like on paper?
Picture a staircase with a landing nobody mentions. Estates climb in flights: a flight of filings, a flight of figures, a flight of consents. The vague reply is the landing between two flights, the place estates pause without announcing the pause.
There is also a paper truth worth keeping close: estates leave trails. Filings are stamped, accounts are kept, letters are dated. When the vague reply puzzles you, the trail usually holds the answer in a form stronger than anyone's memory of a phone call. Ask for the trail. A reading can tell you where to look; the paper will tell you what is true. The live psychic chat guide explains the mechanics of asking in writing, which matters here because estate questions are long, dated, and full of names, and writing suits them better than a ticking call.
Nearly a quarter of Americans ages 18 to 29, about 24 percent, say they consult tarot cards at least annually, compared with 3 percent of Americans 65 and older, per Pew Research Center.
How is a courtesy reply different from a progress report?
Look at what each one costs and what each one protects. Accepting the courtesy costs little now and can cost the whole position later. Asking for the stage list costs effort, sometimes courage, sometimes a difficult letter, and it protects the position itself.
Set the two shapes side by side, grouped by what matters most while the vague reply is live, with billing shapes checked on November 1, 2026.
1. Protection if the numbers are later questioned: Asking for the stage list stands first here, because rights kept in writing are the only rights that survive a dispute.
2. No per minute billing: SpiritClick stands first under this heading, because the whole conversation is bought as answers, first answer free, one answer $7, a pack of 3 at $15, a pack of 8 at $35, and a pack of 15 at $60.
3. What it asks of the family: Asking for the stage list asks more of the family at the start and less of them for the rest of the year.
4. How the total cost is known: SpiritClick stands first under this heading, because the price of the next answer is known before the question is asked, with no meter running while you think.
There is a second comparison hiding inside this one, between deciding in the room where the feeling is loudest and deciding in the room where the record is kept. I have watched both rooms produce good outcomes and bad ones. The record room wins on estates, because estates are remembered by paper long after the feeling in any kitchen has changed its mind.
The per answer model is described in full on the page on texting a psychic, for readers who want the comparison in writing before they decide.
26 percent of U.S. adults say they believe in clairvoyance, the power of the mind to know the past and predict the future, according to Gallup polling from May 2025.
What reply should you send to a vague progress note?
Asked at the right moment, this is the highest value question in the piece. Its moment is now, because a date, a letter, or a meeting has made the hinge visible. Hinges asked about early return fog; hinges asked about at their moment return the clearest answers this kind of season produces, and this one has reached its moment.
I give hinge questions a small ceremony in my room. The hinge goes on paper first, in one sentence, before any cards come out. Then what finished looks like, in a second sentence. Readings held to two sentences behave better than readings allowed to wander, and estates, which are nothing but sentences with deadlines, respect the form.
The neighbouring question gets its own full treatment in the companion article on a court date next week and whether it goes in your favour, which this section leans on deliberately.
71 percent of U.S. adults reported that money is a significant source of stress, up from 63 percent in 2023, in the American Psychological Association Stress in America 2026 survey, conducted by The Harris Poll among 3,132 adults.
How often should an estate report to beneficiaries?
Sequence matters more than force from here. First, gather what you personally know to be true: dates, letters, names, figures you have seen with your own eyes. Second, compare it with what the estate says is true. Third, act only on the gaps.
The other half of the work is the plan on this page: small, written, dated steps, taken in order, while the estate does what estates do at their own pace. Knowing your own pattern under waiting is the first of those steps, because the pattern decides which of the others you will resist.
Knowing whether you freeze or rush in a wait is practical intelligence here, and the seeker type quiz returns it quickly.
71 percent of U.S. adults reported that money is a significant source of stress, up from 63 percent in 2023, in the American Psychological Association Stress in America 2026 survey, conducted by The Harris Poll among 3,132 adults.
What does asking about the vague reply cost?
One answer is $7, stated flat, and the first answer is free. Nothing joins the ladder later: no membership renews itself, no credits expire in a drawer, no balance sits hostage behind a login. Packs exist only as arithmetic, 3 answers for $15, 8 for $35, 15 for $60, for readers whose question turns out to have chapters.
There is no subscription in this shape and nothing to cancel later, which matters more than it sounds. Several readers arrive here directly from memberships that renewed while an estate kept them too busy to notice. One payment, one set of answers, and the relationship ends cleanly until you choose to return with the next stage's question.
Nearly a quarter of Americans ages 18 to 29, about 24 percent, say they consult tarot cards at least annually, compared with 3 percent of Americans 65 and older, per Pew Research Center.
A note from Ida
I keep a private list of estate courtesies that mean nothing: progressing, in hand, with the relevant department, being dealt with. When one arrives we translate it together, and the translation is always the same request: name the stage, name the date, name the person.
A sample exchange, labelled a sample: a reader asks, the solicitor finally replied after seven weeks and only said progressing, is it. You can start that way on my advisor page. The companion piece on the inventory takes the same season from the other side of the family table.
71 percent of U.S. adults reported that money is a significant source of stress, up from 63 percent in 2023, in the American Psychological Association Stress in America 2026 survey, conducted by The Harris Poll among 3,132 adults.
Frequently asked questions
How often should a solicitor update beneficiaries on an estate?
Ask it exactly as it sits in your mind tonight, fragments and all. Dictated questions, half sentences typed at midnight, are welcome in a text chat in a way they are not in a booked appointment. Ida will ask for the missing dates if they matter.
The solicitor replied after seven weeks of silence and only said matters are progressing. Are they?
It is worth separating the two questions hiding inside this one. There is the estate question, which has stages and dates, and the family question, which has people and history. They share a vocabulary and nothing else. Ida can read both, but they get separate answers, and mixing them is how a solvable estate problem becomes an unsolvable family one.
Can beneficiaries demand a proper update from the estate solicitor?
Begin with what you can verify tonight, from your own papers, without asking anyone's permission. The verified core of an estate question is usually three facts deep. Stand on those, and let Ida read the ground around them. Questions built on a verified core survive contact with solicitors, siblings, and courts, which is more than most midnight questions can say.
