Probate or Intestacy advice

Probate

When someone dies, you may be able to apply for a ‘grant of representation’. This gives you the legal right to deal with the person’s property, money and possessions (their ‘estate’). The right to deal with the estate of someone who’s died is called ‘probate’.

If you act as the executor of a will you are personally liable for how you deal with the estate. In view of this it is important that you take legal advice.

Intestacy

If a relative or friend dies without leaving a will, we can guide you through the process of dealing with that person’s estate.

Certainty Will Search

As part of our probate process we conduct a Certainty Will Search with The National Will Register.

Why do we conduct a Certainty Will Search?

It is an unfortunate reality that when a loved one passes on you may find yourself in one of the following situations:

1. not being able to find their Will
2. unsure if they actually wrote a Will or
3. uncertain that you have the most up-to-date Will

We can assist by conducting a Certainty Will Search with The National Will Register. This is a quick

process that accesses millions of Will records. Not only does it search for Wills that are registered but

it also searches nationally for Wills that have not yet been registered.

The National Will Register and its Will search service are designed to help protect executors,

administrators and beneficiaries against the risks associated with the distribution of an estate on an

assumed intestacy basis, or using a Will that may have been superseded by a later unknown version.

Two in every ten Certainty Will Searches results in a Will being found where one was thought never

to have been written or the Will being used to distribute the estate had been superseded by the newer found Will.

Contact us to conduct a Certainty Will Search on your behalf with The National Will Register”

Contact Ms Hayley Bholah on 020 8393 0055 or hayley.bholah@lewis-dick.com

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