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Grant of Probate

ineedsomehelp75 · 2015-01-21 21:10:49

I'm acting as executor of will for my father's estate. The building society he had his is a with has written to me saying to get the cash they need to receive the grant of probate. Then on the next line in says if I want to transfer the account to another person they need sight of the grant of probate. Are these both the…

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SevenOfNine Posts: 2,442 Forumite

25 January 2015 at 12:04PM

We bought 6 copies of the Grant of Representation when my widowed no kids Aunty died a few years ago - & we still have 5 (plus the original), 30k estate & no Will!

Only the bank asked for a copy , no-one else was interested. Insurance policies paying out, refunds from energy suppliers, mobile, whopping overpayment on rent etc totalled a further 3K we were surprised they all just handed money over to my Mother on sight of the death certificate.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
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