The easiest way to find out if you need probate is to take our free interactive questionnaire. Answer questions about the person who’s died, like if they owned any property and who they banked with.
If you’ve made an application for probate and you’re going to be named on the grant document, you might have some questions about what should happen once probate is granted.
A beneficiary of a will is a person who’ll inherit something when someone else dies. Details of their inheritance can be found within the will document.
If you’re an executor of a will and other executors have also been appointed, you may have some questions about who should act and apply for probate and how. This article explains some of the things you may need or want to know as a co-executor.
Probate is usually required if the estate of the person who died is worth more than £10,000. However, if most of the assets in the estate were jointly owned, probate may not be needed at all.
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