Countersigning of a small estates share form

gillybean129

You wouldn't believe the palaver to get this signed.
Basically my Barclays branch want to see my Dads will, death certificate, share certificates and a £10 fee to send it all off to Glasgow.
i only took it in there as compushare want to charge me £40 (+£48 admin!) and on the form there is an option for your bank to sign it for you.
Anyone else had this?

bowlhead99

I wanted to get some copy ID documents certified a couple of years back, similar to how I had done many many years previously; and was told by my bank (Lloyds) that they no longer did it unless it was for a product application within the group - in my case it was for a new account with a rival broker. Perhaps they would have been different if it were a bereavement and I was willing to pay a fee.

Still, if you want to get someone to do something which is not their day job, like signing to say they have seen a load of your original documents to evidence that they are valid, I don't see how you would expect them to do that without showing them the various documents to prove that they are in fact valid. And you would expect a fee for it, if it is above the call of duty and not part of the normal day job, right? And if it is part of the day job, you would expect it to have a price on their menu of services because it is not something that all of their customers want or need and the other customers don't want to pay for your admin.

So, to me, it doesn't sound like it is an unbelievable palaver to have to show a bank some documents to prove an application is valid if you want to convince them to sign a form to make some sort of application for something. And it doesn't seem like it is unreasonable to have to pay someone for reviewing something and signing something and sending it all off somewhere.

What you're describing seems pretty reasonable if you try to stand back as an impartial observer and take an unbiased viewpoint. How else would you think they should do it?

Inevitably your recent loss is going to make it feel harder than it actually is, but to Computershare or Barclays it is not their fault that he died and you want them to do some work for you because of it.

Sorry if that sounds blunt