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Afterlife Legal Services

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After a loved one has died, we can provide as much or as little legal help as you need.

Get The Help You Need With Our Afterlife Services

Inheritance Tax

Depending on an estate's size, one of the biggest factors to be taken into account is the size of any potential Inheritance Tax bill. Friends Legal can help you through the IHT process as part of our Private Client service.

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Full Estate Administration

After your loved one has died, the last thing many want to think about is distributing their assets. At this time of loss, Friends Legal can step in to take away that stress, dealing with the Courts and all the administrative tasks involved in winding up an estate.

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Get Confirmation After A Death

Let Friends Legal take care of obtaining the grant of Confirmation from the Court, leaving you free to deal with the rest of the Estate Administration.

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What Do I Do When Losing A Loved One?

Friends Legal can offer you practical and legal advice to help you when losing a loved one.

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When someone you love dies, your grieving process begins. Alongside the huge emotional impact of a death, there are the administrative burdens to deal with too. At Friends Legal, we can offer practical and legal advice to help you through this time. Our guides and FAQs explore what steps you need to take to register the death and organise a funeral. We can also guide you through the executry process, including obtaining a grant of Confirmation (or probate) from the Court. All of which is required to allow you to distribute your loved one’s belongings in accordance with their wishes.

Our Executry Services

We offer a personal service tailored to you, should you need it. Whether that’s advice to enable you to deal with your loved one’s assets yourself (offering advice throughout the estate administration process); helping you apply for Confirmation, or stepping in to manage the executry process in its entirety by undertaking all the administration and legal requirements involved in carrying out your loved one’s wishes. We’re here – by your side – to guide you. 

The difference is clear, every step of the way.

Our team will help you decide what option is right for you and won’t make a difficult time any more confusing or expensive than it needs to be. Our accessible, friendly team of experts are passionate about working alongside you through every stage of this emotional process.

Together we can guide you through a simple estate, file the application to the Court (Confirmation) required in a larger estate. Or – for complete peace of mind – we can take on all the administrative and legal tasks involved in the Executry process, including valuing, ingathering and distributing your loved one’s assets. However little or much you would like us to do, we have a service that suits, clearly priced and expertly delivered.

Afterlife Services

Confirmation only

We obtain Confirmation from the Court – a necessary step to enable an Executor to ingather and distribute your loved one’s assets in accordance with their wishes.

Full Estate Administration

We will deal with your loved one’s Estate from start to finish. Our Full Estate Administration service allows you to focus on what matters most to your family.

Contact Us

For more information about our Afterlife services, please contact our team, who will take the initial details of the Estate and recommend the best approach for you and your loved ones. We provide a wide variety of ways to contact the team, and our opening hours span more than the usual 9-5 – so you can get in touch at a time and in a way that suits you. 

Obtaining Confirmation, Probate - By Your Side from Friends Legal

What is Confirmation and how do I Obtain it?

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Confirmation is the legal document authorising an executor to administer the estate of a deceased individual.
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Estate Administration, Executry - By Your Side from Friends Legal

How Do I Distribute An Estate?

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Where there is a Will, the assets are distributed by an Executor according to the deceased's wishes.
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Helping Hand - Executry, Probate, Confirmation Service - By Your Side from Friends Legal

How Do I Obtain Confirmation in Scotland?

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Confirmation is the equivalent of probate in England and Wales and consists of a legal document from the Court that grants power to the Executor to deal with your assets.
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being an executor - By Your Side from Friends Legal

I'm An Executor, What Do I Do?

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The people who administer an estate after a death are called Executors. Executors are the representatives of the deceased.
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