Category: Probate articles

When you’re probating an estate, it’s necessary to work out which probate forms should be completed from an inheritance tax perspective. It’s essential on every grant of probate application to complete an inheritance tax form, irrespective of whether inheritance tax… Find out more

After someone dies, with or without leaving a Will, their money, property and belongings need to be dealt with and administered to beneficiaries. If you are an executor of the Will (or an administrator, if the deceased died without a… Find out more

Applies to England & Wales, and Northern Ireland. Read our equivalent article for Scotland. When you’re named as the executor of a Will, you’re being asked to take responsibility for administering the estate of the person who made the Will,… Find out more

Executors named in a Will have a wide range of tasks to complete when someone dies and for some this can be very daunting. As part of their duties an executor has to value the assets and debts of the… Find out more

When someone dies, the executors have a duty to identify the assets of the estate and assess their value at the date of death (i.e. the market value had they been sold that day). For full information and guidance on… Find out more

If you have been appointed as executor in a Will and you don’t want to do it, then you are not obliged to do so. You can abandon your right to act by signing a form of ‘renunciation’ at the… Find out more

Most estates do need to go through probate: It’s not a question of whether the deceased left a Will, but whether or not the assets dealt with by the Will are the sort of assets that require a Grant of… Find out more