C1 Grant of Confirmation - Looking for help

Stargazer10

Good evening,

I recently lost both my parents and am looking for some guidance on the completion of the C1 Grant of Confirmation to enable the sale of the family home, a small amount of shares and to allow release of funds from Santander and Nationwide Building Society accounts and conclude the execution of the estate.

My father passed away latterly and had a will in which my brother and I were named as executors.

I have in the main completed the C1 form by means of reviewing many posts relating to C1 on this forum which has been an excellent source of assistance.

I am looking for help in relation to my late father having been the beneficiary under the Estate of his late father in Southern Ireland. Due to difficulties and complications arising from the administration of the estate, my father assigned his rights and interests under the estate to my younger brother and sister as trustees on behalf of the family trust. Although the property is now sold, there is currently a claim going through the civil court relating to a land ownership dispute and as such this estate has not as yet been settled.

My question is, am I right in thinking that as my father assigned his rights over to my siblings 3 years ago, that at the time of his death (Nov 2025) he was not due a bequest from the estate (in Ireland) and that any interest gathered from the sale of the property and sale of land (if court decides land belongs to the estate) would fall within the family trust to his next of kin, whenever the opportunity to distribute his late fathers estate arises ?

For note, my father himself had a last will and testament, but this did not mention the property or land in Ireland, it only referred to heritable property in Scotland, his domiciled address.

Myself and my brother (who is also the trustee aforementioned) are joint executors for his estate.

Q. Do I need to add into the C1 form heritable land and property outside Scotland or does the fact it is in trust negate this ? And this would remain as Nil ?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Regards,

Rory

buddy9

Given the circumstances stated, I think it unlikely that you will be able to receive suitable guidance on this forum.

Stargazer10

Thank you @buddy9, I will seek legal advice from a solicitor in that case. Appreciate the update.

Grumpy90

Hi @buddy9

Your advice on confirmation in this & a few forums is first class. I’ve used it to draft a form for my late mother. Would you be prepared to give it an assessment please?

buddy9

I will if I can.

Grumpy90

thanks … I’ll post some pages tomorrow

Stargazer10

Hi @buddy9

I was wondering if I could ask your advice again…

• Just prior to my fathers sudden death, I had POA and had completed the forms to have my late mothers bank accounts closed (she passed 5 months before him) and he signed the document to have the funds sent to him by cheque. He had signed the documentation a few weeks or so before her fell unwell and passed away. This cheque was received and was dated after his death. I spoke with the bank manager and he confirmed that the cheque could still be paid into the bank account and thereafter when cleared, the account could be formally closed.

The C1 form shows the entry as follows

Bank name & address

Sort code

Acct number

Balance with interest at date of death (for example purposes only) £2,000.00

The cheque I paid in was again for eg £15,000

How do I incorporate this into the inventory ?

I would be obliged if you could please suggest appropriate wording…

• Also - my father had a small amount of shares with Lloyds Banking Group (previously TSB) Would the following be suitable for the inventory ?

500 Ordinary Shares Lloyds Banking Group, Registered Head Office & Corporate, Lloyds Bank plc, 25 Gresham Stree, London EC2v 7HN (share price at date of death 0.82p) *Do I need to add share price ? or is it share price when sold (I have not yet sold them)

Also - A tech issue here but I require a further page for inventory so have downloaded the combined C1 & C2 document however I am unable to remove/delete the additional pages and change the bottom page numbers ? Do I just leave them all in and add pages 3 to 4 on at point 5 on pg 2 ?

Thanks in advance of any assistance you can provide, I am truly grateful and have used a lot of your information on this forum to good use following my solicitors appointment.

buddy9

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82024609#Comment_82024609

For the cheque amount, include a separate entry under moveable estate such as:

Entitlement to legacy from the estate of predeceased spouse [name]

Shares description looks ok. Include the share value as at date of death in the 3rd column and the total value in the 4th column.

Page numbering. If using the combined C1 and C2 - an option is to omit the blank inventory pages and manually renumber the final two pages, in this case as page 5 and page 6. 

Para 5 in page 2 would say pages 3 to 4.

(An alternative option is to print the inventory separately on a ‘paper apart’).