Death and bereavement
Reporting a death, wills, probate and Inheritance Tax
What to do when someone dies
- What to do when someone dies: step by step
- Register a death
- Register a stillbirth
- Applying for probate
- Stopping a probate application
- Update property records when someone dies
- Get a declaration of presumed death
- Change or cancel a presumption of death certificate
- Challenge a presumption of death claim
Tell government about the death (including Tell Us Once)
Dealing with the estate
Dealing with wills, tax and inheritance
- Making a will
- Search probate records for documents and wills (England and Wales)
- Intestacy - who inherits if someone dies without a will?
- Make a statutory will on behalf of someone else
- Change a will after a death
- Find a soldier's will
- How Inheritance Tax works: thresholds, rules and allowances
- Pay your Inheritance Tax bill
- Business Relief for Inheritance Tax
- Tax on property, money and shares you inherit
- Appoint the Public Trustee as executor of your estate
Get help and support
- Find bereavement services from your council
- Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave
- Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
- Support for child funeral costs (Children’s Funeral Fund for England)
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Guardian's Allowance
- Widowed Parent's Allowance
- Your benefits, tax and pension after the death of a spouse