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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)

• What to do after someone dies
• Telling DVLA after someone dies

Dealing with the estate

• Dealing with the estate of someone who's died
• How to value an estate for Inheritance Tax and report its value
• Claim or refer an unclaimed estate
• Find and claim money in a court account

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