Apply for Probate

Applying for the legal right to deal with someone’s property, money and possessions (their ‘estate’) when they die is called ‘applying for probate’.

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About this service

• Organisation: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Topic: Crime, justice and the law
• Status: Beta
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Service history

Did not meet alpha assessment

9 December 2016

Passed alpha assessment

21 February 2017

• Service assessment report

Passed beta assessment

3 May 2018

• service assessment report