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If you already have the right or have probate (as an executor or administrator) you can start dealing with the estate. You may need to apply for the right to deal with the estate of the person who's died (also...
As a personal representative (an executor or administrator) you’re legally…
You must pay any debts and settle the taxes for the person who died. This…
You may have to pay taxes for the estate if there is any new income while…
You may need to send information to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) about…
Once you have paid any debts and taxes, or you are sure the estate has…
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
You can appoint the Public Trustee as the executor of your estate to deal…
The Public Trustee will check whether anyone else is suitable, willing and…
Executors and administrators can use this form to give up their legal responsibility and role permanently (also known as ‘renunciation’) to apply for probate.
Probate practitioners named in a will as an executor and who are a partner, member, shareholder or director in a firm, can use this form to give up probate executor rights.
Schedule 14 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 decisions issued by the Planning Inspectorate and published after 1 January 2019
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Advice on the execution of deeds that are to be submitted to HM Land Registry (practice guide 8).
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Mrs Justice Heather Williams on 17 June 2025.
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