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Probate - Is It Necessary?
I am trying to assist my executors, who wish to DIY my
estate in the event of my death. My circumstances are: I’m married, our home is
held in Tenants in Common but because of my previous divorce I wish to leave my
half of the property (house total value – around £800k) in trust to my 2 children. Apart from the house I…
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Probate - Applying Online
MSE states in section four of link below that: "you can only apply online if the deceased lived in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, you're the estate executor/administrator, and you: Are the husband, wife, civil partner or child of the deceased" However, I am the nephew and sole executor of my late aunt (not husband,…
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Probate time - Any chance in under a week?
South west of England. Just doing probate for my mums estate (A house worth 140k), NO savings, NO debt, NO bonds nothing. The house was left to me and my partner. The will was done through a solicitor. I filled out the forms today and sent them off (next day). What do you think the turn around will be before the court…
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Probate
I have submitted probate request online. Probate office have said they want further information from the witnesses to the will. They are going to send a form to them. Does anyone know what form they will send? If I can download it I hope to reduce the time we will have to wait. Thank you
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Probate on line
I’m trying to help my mum to do grant of probate for my father. Everything is in joint name apart from his one ISA , mum thought that she could inherit the isa and it would be straightforward, but Lloyds have said that as its value is over £50,000, they need to see Grant of probate? Can they demand this? all bank accounts…
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Unregulated trust and estate planning
Has anyone else had problems with an unregulated estate administration company — and what did you do about it? My father passed away in January 2025. His estate is being administered by Steele Rose & Co Limited, a Salisbury-based company. The executor's year ended in January 2026. It's now June 2026 and the estate is still…
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Power of Attorney, it's making my head hurt
My Sister and I are about to set up a POA for our father, we were hoping to do it ourselves, but I'm really not sure I can having looked at the form. Signing the forms would be our father, my sister and I, then a certificate provider and a witness. Does this mean we need two different people to sign? I'm finding it very…
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Can I claim 2x residence nil rate bands of £175k
Hello. I believe the rules around residence nil rate bands changed after my mother died in 2013. My father died just last week (they were married). Will I be able to claim two residence nil rate bands?
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Changing executor
Apologies for starting a thread when I’ve not contributed on this site for some time but I’m looking for a little advice and maybe reassurance please. I was appointed executor for a will, jointly with a solicitor and with 4 equal beneficiaries. There’s a house, some money and a few effects and they were a single lady - so…
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Updating Will for money for Grandchildren query
Hi, My current Will is set up to leave all my money to my grandchildren when they reach 21 but reading numerous threads on here it seems that this will incur hefty taxation and need to be set up in a Trust, difficult to manage etc. As the sum involved (currently unless I win the lottery) is around £40,000 a STEP qualified…
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Applying for probate with form PA15 Renunciation
Hello, I would be grateful if anyone could help explain when we need to do given the following: An elderly relative has recently died The sole executor is very elderly and does not want to be the executor. My husband and I have been managing everything so far (funeral etc, paying for things), but we now need to apply for…
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NS&I premium bonds reply after bereavement
Anyone know how long NS&I are taking to respond to online form filling for a bereavement. I did this eight weeks ago and have heard absolutely nothing. Not even an acknowledgement. In a panic after getting no acknowledgement I phoned up a few days after doing the online bit and spoke to someone who said they did not send…
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CGT on chattels
As executors, we did all the right things including getting a professional valuer for the house contents, came out under £2k as I gather it always does. then we started selling things…to be fair, the valuer a) didn't look in the cupboards and the attic so didn't spot a lot of small items and b) would not have expected me…
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Probate/Selling House/Council Tax
I just thought I would vent a bit as when we wanted to market deceased parents house the EA would not market it until Probate had been granted. Probate only took a week and we thought great at the time but in the current selling climate with buyers further down chain dropping out right before exchange we are now having to…
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Grant of Confirmation
Hi, I’m trying to fill in the form for Grant of Confirmation for my dad’s estate (C1). I’m trying to do this on my own without a solicitor. I think I understand the main issues, it should be such a simple situation, but what exactly to put on the form is driving me crazy :mad:. Would be grateful if anyone could help.…
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Forms needed to change the property register
After having sorted the Probate and DOV out I am now looking at sorting the Land Registry paperwork out. I know it doesn’t need to be done straight away and I was going to leave it for now but my Mother wants me to get it sorted. The property is held in equal shares as tenants in common between my Mother, Father and…
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Paper probate
We had to apply for probate as a paper PA1P due to a change in executors, the named solicitors agreed to renounce in favour of some of us beneficiaries. We sent the paperwork and additional items as requested, including the deed of renunciation, death certificate and will etc. A few weeks after that, we received the…
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Bills after death
I have quite a few things to sort out but my immediate one is this. I share a home with my disabled daughter, who gets UC with the disability top up. All household bills go out of my bank account. I cannot put my daughter in a joint acc with me as it might look like she earns as I work full time. Some of her disability is…
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Deed of variation after distribution and interest
I have distributed my dads estate and am now considering a deed of assignment to give part of my share to my son to avoid iht on my estate. The funds are in my bank account gaining interest. If I give part of the distribution to my son does anyone know what I do about the interest on that part?
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Theft by POA?
My great uncle has POA health and welfare and money for my grandmother. The money part is active as my gran cannot handle money at all. She doesn't have any concept of money, never has done and my grandfather used to handle all the money before he passed away. I've found out that my grandmother believes she has been making…
