After receipt of Grant of Probate

Owain_Moneysaver

It may be slightly misunderstood -- perhaps the timescale is 20 days for issue of the grant after the oath has been sworn and returned?

Not 20 days from submission of the initial IHT and PA1 forms! That, as said, can be months especially if HMRC think there is oustanding tax liabilities.

SLGibson

Hi all


An update on what actually happened......


Doing the probate online (which said 20 working days) meant that we received the Grant within 2 weeks - could not believe have quick this was - brilliant service.


My husband and father-in-law took the Grant into Natwest on Friday just gone, requested the money (£168K) to be transferred into another Natwest account (which we assumed may speed things up a little) and yesterday (Tuesday) we received the inheritance. They'd said 5-10 working days.

Our daughter is 4 on Sunday and with the £25,000 we have received from my husbands Grandmother we can begin building the garage on the side of our home in which we can make a sensory play room to aid her in her development since she was diagnosed as having a Chromosone 15 deletion. I am beyond delighted.


Thank you to those that provided helpful responses.

SLGibson

Hi Owain


The oath is the last thing you 'sign' electronically....but all part of the same submission online. It took less than 2 weeks to receive the Grant of Probate after we submitted the probate application. You can still fill in forms and post them but doing it online is definitely the fastest way. We only actually realized that my father-in-law had received the Grant when we saw it on the probate/Will searching website and confronted him. We had to explain that we either all get our inheritance or none of us do! Of course this procedure was only so straightforward because the estate was so very very simple. I can see that even getting to the point of being able to submit the probate application online could take a very long time if the estate is any more complex.


Thanks for your help about Natwest - you were absolutely right about the form and time period etc.

Newly_retired

Glad it all worked out so well and so swiftly for you.

But often that is not the case. It is not unknown for it to take well over a year, sometimes much longer, for beneficiaries to receive a distribution.
In the case of my MIL, the DWP caused a delay of over 18 months, over and above everything else.

This is why those who have experience of delays dare not be too optimistic in the advice they give. I am sure nobody was trying to cause offence.