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DIY probate after professional executor has renounced

SSJ66
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As our mother’s estate is uncomplicated and we’ve already done most of the notification of organisations ourselves, the professional executor named in the will has agreed to renounce. My brother and I have the will, and the letter of renunciation. As far as we can tell we now have to apply for probate as administrators using a paper form and cannot use the online form. However I have also seen in various places online mention of us being able to become executors, but we can’t work out how to do that. Please could anyone advise?
Thank you.
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You need to apply for letters of administration with will attached.
Only named executors apply for probate.
(In practice it's the same)1 -
To whom do we apply for letters of administration? Is that the completion of form PA1P for citizen applicants? And then we get letters of administration after the 8 week (probably longer) wait? Thanks.0
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This is what the Gov website says
Give up your right to apply
Fill in form PA15 to give up your right to apply permanently. This is known as ‘renunciation’.
Appoint someone to apply on your behalf
You can appoint someone to apply for you if either:
- you’re the only executor named in the will
- there are other executors named in the will, but all of them are either holding ‘power reserved’ or have given up their right to apply permanently
Fill in form PA11 to appoint someone to apply for you.
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msb1234 said:This is what the Gov website says
Give up your right to apply
Fill in form PA15 to give up your right to apply permanently. This is known as ‘renunciation’.
Appoint someone to apply on your behalf
You can appoint someone to apply for you if either:
- you’re the only executor named in the will
- there are other executors named in the will, but all of them are either holding ‘power reserved’ or have given up their right to apply permanently
Fill in form PA11 to appoint someone to apply for you.
But as far as I can see none of that is actually relevant to the OP ?They're not the named executors and they;re not renunciating - the named solicitors have already done that.Nor do they want anyone to apply to handle the estate on their behalf.What the OP is looking for now is how they themselves go about applying for letters of administration with a will in their position as close kin of the deceased, having already got the solicitors to renounce1 -
I did this last year for my mum. The named executors renounced so I could apply for "letters of administration with will annexed". I couldn't do it online - I had to do a paper application, filling in form PA1P and sending the signed renunciations (form PA15) along with the original will. In section 3.6 you list the named executors and the reason for their renouncing. It took 21 weeks from when I sent my application to receive the grant, and that was with much chasing by phone.1
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jsatellite said:I did this last year for my mum. The named executors renounced so I could apply for "letters of administration with will annexed". I couldn't do it online - I had to do a paper application, filling in form PA1P and sending the signed renunciations (form PA15) along with the original will. In section 3.6 you list the named executors and the reason for their renouncing. It took 21 weeks from when I sent my application to receive the grant, and that was with much chasing by phone.0
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the problem with people making wills is that they get the "oh probate is so complicated, you can't possibly leave X with so much work to do, it isn't fair on them... etc etc " - they want you to leave the place with a nice warm fuzzy feeling that "everything is sorted"
can be quite hard to resist the sell unless you are well informed and determined1 -
SSJ66 said:jsatellite said:I did this last year for my mum. The named executors renounced so I could apply for "letters of administration with will annexed". I couldn't do it online - I had to do a paper application, filling in form PA1P and sending the signed renunciations (form PA15) along with the original will. In section 3.6 you list the named executors and the reason for their renouncing. It took 21 weeks from when I sent my application to receive the grant, and that was with much chasing by phone.All posts are my personal opinion, not formal advice Always get proper, professional advice (particularly about anything legal!)0
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