Death certificate

MJB1208

For those that applied for probate online, did you have to post the death certificate? I haven't been told to but seems like something that you would expect for them to see.

There's no will so don't need to send anything else, but I don't want to slow down the application in any way.

McKneff

If there is no will, probate is not required. 
Letters of administration are required to go firward

p00hsticks

I think I've seen someone on this board say that they had to send off a death certificate, but we didn't have to. I think it may depend on the length of time that has elapsed since the death - for the first few months only the local registrar will have the details of the death, so you might be asked to send one, but after the end of the quarter the General Register gets updated and once it's on there I suspect that the relevant authorities will simply be able to access and verify the details themselves online.

Marcon

McKneff said:

If there is no will, probate is not required. 
Letters of administration are required to go firward

Please see https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-probate-by-post-if-there-is-not-a-will

McKneff

Yes I saw that but it does say in the second sentence
Applyfor letters of administration. 

If you apply for probate they will want sight of a will, impossible because there is no will

p00hsticks

McKneff said:

Yes I saw that but it does say in the second sentence
Applyfor letters of administration. 

If you apply for probate they will want sight of a will, impossible because there is no will

Whilst you are technically correct, the offical site appears to use 'probate' as a shorthand for 'letters of administration', as illustrated by Marcons link to the gov.uk site above, which is entitled 'applying for probate by post if there is not a will'

PeterE17

To go back to the original question: I applied online for probate (rather than letters of administration) and submitted a scanned copy of the death certificate that clearly showed the watermark (using 300 dots-per-inch setting on the scanner). 

DancingBadger

I've just submitted an application for Probate this morning; the only documents requested were the original will and a renunciation form for the other executor who didn't want to be involved in the probate process.