Transfer of assent letter of adminstation query

GuitarNeb

My friends mother passed and I am completing forms AS1 and AP1 etc to help out. I have a letter of adminstation for his mother but checking the title deeds his father who passed away decades before is still on the deeds. I assume I would need another letter of adminstation for his father, can you confirm this please.

SDLT_Geek

GuitarNeb said:

My friends mother passed and I am completing forms AS1 and AP1 etc to help out. I have a letter of adminstation for his mother but checking the title deeds his father who passed away decades before is still on the deeds. I assume I would need another letter of adminstation for his father, can you confirm this please.

Where two people are registered as owners, then for the purpose of getting a change of title registered with the Land Registry, you often need only proof death of the first to die, though for the second to die you would need letters of administration or grant of probate.

Flugelhorn

agree with @SDLT_Geek - my father was still on the registry as owner 20 years after his death. When I sold the property with Mother's probate all that was needed was a copy of his death cert and my solicitor did the rest 

sheramber

After my husband died his name remained on the deeds as joint owner until I sold the house. 

My solicitor  needed sight of the death ceritficate and simply noted on the notice of sale to land registry that he had died and she had seen the death certificate.