Not declaring a car SORN

[big-all]

(Grant of probate, or Letters of Administration if no will)

I find they mostly do come back, eventually, but they are cheap to order with the initial application, so get at least a dozen. Same with death certs. Sometimes you will need to order birth, marriage and divorce documents.

If you are dealing with 20 banks and financial institurions, get at least two dozen. You might be sending a fairly standard letter out, as soon as you have the documents, to lots of companies. You don't want to hang about waiting for the first batch to come back. Utility companies may accept photocopies.

You can write on the back "please return to (your name and address)" and say in the covering letter that you want it back.

yes it would have been grant off probate

i only expected about 5 accounts where live hence the 6 certs but belt and braces check them all
i drafted a standard letter along the lines off

i understand bigall senior had accounts with you --------[space for account details]
i have enclosed an original death and probate certificate can you please check your systems and records for any monies that may be held and iff any is found please return any funds held to the executors at address given or please instruct what further actions you require to release fund you hold

the execurors are sons big all the larger big all and big all 3
thank you for your help and understanding

or words along those lines

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

i agree they wanted a percentage off my fathers estate including assets [money between a few hundred to mid k] amounting to around 200k distributed but logged by my father many years earlier when distributed but most less than 7 years previous

I heard mention, of them able to claim up to 15-25% of the estate, if they had managed to write themselves into the will - at which I panicked.

 

[johnny2007]

I didn't know that cars need to be sorn if there's no insurance, even if kept locked in a garage.
I ended up paying a fine although I had paid the road tax for the whole year.
Daylight robbery.

 

[norseman]

I didn't know that cars need to be sorn if there's no insurance, even if kept locked in a garage.
I ended up paying a fine although I had paid the road tax for the whole year.
Daylight robbery.

A couple of hundred or so years ago the penalty for highway robbery was death by hanging.

One rule for one ..

 

[morqthana]

.... appoint a solicitor or other professional to do some or all of it, such as making the application.

Making a probate application is so not hard at all, as long as you can read.

 

[big-all]

Making a probate application is so not hard at all, as long as you can read.

thats a rather unhelpful comment
there are several levels off complication when applying from memory are you below the 325k/double for 2 parents exemption are you liable for inheritance tax all requiring a different form to be filled in
just because you find it easy does not mean others will
remember its a legal document where getting it wrong can mean criminal charges with wrong information if your intent is to deceive deliberately

 

[morqthana]

I've done it twice - they lead you by the hand through it all, one question at a time, directing you to which forms you need to fill in, what figures to put in which boxes, which to add up, etc. There are guides on shouty man's website, Which...

Granted, if the deceased's affairs were out of the ordinary, maybe foreign assets, or trusts, businesses to be wound up, professional advice might be needed, but for nearly everybody it is quite simple. I suspect many people decide before starting that they won't be able to do it.

 

[JohnD]

Making a probate application is so not hard at all, as long as you can read.

The user may have all sorts of reasons for wanting to offload the work.

And "has the option to appoint a solicitor or other professional to do some or all of it."

 

[norseman]

The user may have all sorts of reasons for wanting to offload the work.

And "has the option to appoint a solicitor or other professional to do some or all of it."

This was the case with my other half.
I never knew whether or not her terminally ill sister discussed the exec. role prior to making the will, it wasn't the time or place for me to ask, but when the onerous task began to effect my partner's mental state we passed much of the work over to a local solicitor .. a mind at peace takes precedence over money any time.

 

[morqthana]

The user may have all sorts of reasons for wanting to offload the work.

Yes, but thinking that they can't do it themselves is not a valid one.

Thinking it's all complicated is not a valid one.

Thinking it's all legal stuff that only a solicitor can do properly is not a valid one.

 

[JohnD]

Yes, but thinking that they can't do it themselves is not a valid one.

Thinking it's all complicated is not a valid one.

Thinking it's all legal stuff that only a solicitor can do properly is not a valid one.

Has anybody suggested that?

Just you.