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A guide for people who want to store their will or codicil (an update to the will) with HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
Apply for probate or confirmation if there's Inheritance Tax to pay, or if the deceased's estate does not qualify as an 'excepted estate'.
Use the print and post form (IHT205) if the person died on or after 6 April 2011, and on or before 31 December 2021, and the estate is unlikely to pay Inheritance Tax.
CMA launches new investigation to protect consumers following complaints about unregulated will-writing, online divorce, and pre-paid probate services
Use this form to apply to withdraw a will or codicil from storage with HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS).
Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).
Submit or respond to online applications for certain civil, family and tribunal cases.
This consultation seeks views on whether to align the fees for grants of probate into a single fee that is set at cost recovery.
Appoint a public official to act as executor of your estate if no one else can do it - the Public Trustee, Official Solicitor, fees, contact
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