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Wills & probate
This part of the site provides legal information and documents relating to wills, including making your Will, changing a Will and applying for probate. If you have not written a Will yet, consider writing one today, as without it, the state may decide how your belongings are distributed.
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Wills & probate
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Wills
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This Will is suitable for anyone who is married or in a civil partnership. It will allow you to make as many gifts of money or specific items as you like. You will be able to leave the remainder of your…
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This Will is suitable for anyone who is married or in a civil partnership. It will allow you to make as many gifts of money or specific items as you like. You will be able to leave the remainder of your…
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This Will is designed for someone who is not married or joined in a civil partnership, whether or not they have a partner and whether or not they have any children. It will allow you to make as many…
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This Will is designed for someone who is not married or joined in a civil partnership, whether or not they have a partner and whether or not they have any children. It will allow you to make as many…
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This Will is suitable for a person who is married or in a civil partnership and wishes to create a discretionary trust for one of the following reasons:
1. To try and avoid a local authority using…
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A letter of wishes is an informal letter addressed to your executors which expresses what you would like to happen following your death. Unlike your Will, the letter of wishes does not become a publicly…
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This document is used to create all three documents needed to sever a joint tenancy, that is to say, to convert it into tenants in common where joint tenants each own a given proportion of the property…
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Living Wills
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Use this document to create a 'Living Will' which is a document that sets out your wishes regarding health care and how you want to be treated if you become seriously ill and unable to make or communicate…
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This is a formal, written revocation of a Living Will. It would be appropriate where the directions given and the views expressed in a Living Will no longer reflect the maker's wishes, and the maker does…
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Amending a Will
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If an executor named in your Will dies, you can use this codicil to appoint another person to act in their place as an executor in your Will. In all other respects, your Will remains unchanged. Please…
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If you wish to make another gift of money or a specific item to a beneficiary named in your Will, you can use this codicil to do so without having to draft a new Will. In all other respects, your Will…
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If you wish to cancel a gift which you have made in your Will, but you wish all other aspects of your Will to remain, you can use this codicil to do so. You cannot use this document if you already have…
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If you need to revoke the appointment of an executor in your Will and replace him/her with a substitute, you can use this codicil to do so. You might do this if one of your executors is unable to act as…
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If you wish to revoke a specific gift (e.g. a car, furniture) or pecuniary gift (i.e. money) given in your Will and give that same gift (or a different gift) to someone else, you can use this codicil to…
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Probate
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Once probate has been granted, the executors or administrators of the estate can begin the process of distributing assets. This document can be used as part of this process by creating a receipt to be…
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If you owned a share of joint property with another person who has passed away leaving you their share of the property in addition to your own, you can use this deed of variation to give this inherited…
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This document should be used to redirect a gift (or part of a gift) that has been left to you under a Will to one or more people. Please note that once this deed of variation has been signed, it cannot be…
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This document can be used to vary a gift left to you via intestacy, that is the process where an estate is distributed when the deceased has not left a Will. This deed will allow you to give a gift you…
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When a person dies leaving behind an estate, which can include a house or a flat, as well as money, shares and personal possessions, it is usually necessary to apply to the Probate Registry to obtain a…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can …
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or administrator(s) must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, as part of this process, this…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can …
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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When someone dies without a Will, his/her estate needs to be administered (that is the process of paying any debts, collecting assets and distributing them to those who are legally entitled). To…
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If you have been appointed an executor in a Will, and you do not want to act in this role, you can use this document to refuse your appointment. People often find, particularly after the death of a…
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When applying for a grant of probate, the executor(s) named in a Will or the administrators must determine the value of the deceased's estate at the time of his/her death and, in this process, you can use…
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Trusts
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This document is a declaration of trust that records how one person holds real property for another. The effect is to create a situation whereby one person (the trustee) is recorded as being the legal…
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This document may be used where either one person holds property and wishes to declare a trust relating to its ownership or two people hold some property and wish to set out the way in which they own the…
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This document allows a person to record in writing a trust that they have declared relating to property. It is intended that the property be personal property and this document is not suitable for land or…
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This document allows a person to transfer their ownership in shares to another and retain the shares in their name. Where a company requires shareholders to fulfil certain criteria and the person does…
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This document is intended to be a simple trust for the benefit of a single beneficiary and his/her family. The income of the trust fund is payable to the beneficiary (called the 'life tenant') for his/her…
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Name Change
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This document will create a deed poll or statutory declaration (as required) to change your surname and/or first name. To use the deed poll option, you must have the details of a person who has known you…
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You can easily change the name of your child using this document, provided that you have parental responsibility for that child and any other person who also has parental responsibility gives consent to…
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