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Find out who is entitled to a share of someone’s property, possessions and money if they die without making a will
Find out if you are an entitled relative and how to claim an estate from the Bona Vacantia Division.
Form PN1ID: Evidence of identity when making a search of the index of proprietors' names.
The process when a British national dies in Kenya, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
Application form AS3: for personal representative(s) to assent part of a registered title.
If someone dies without a will or known family, their ownerless property (bona vacantia) goes to the crown - check if you're an entitled relative, search for an estate, refer or claim on an estate
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK.
Support and benefits you can get if you're looking after someone else's child, court orders - kinship care, private fostering, friends and family care
This series contains statistics on Inheritance Tax (IHT) and estates passing on death for which grants of representation are required.
Use form IHT401 with form IHT400 if the deceased had their permanent home outside the UK when they died.
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