Estate Administration

The person who will be or is appointed executor or administer, must also administer the state.

Estate administration is the work of administering a deceased estate.

A simple estate administration generally involves the tasks of locating the assets of the deceased, converting these assets into cash or transferring property into the name of beneficiaries, paying the deceased’s liabilities and tax , and distributing the remainder to the beneficiaries.

Estate administration can also be more complex. For example:

The full extent of the deceased’s assets is not known, and assets have to be located
The assets are not in the deceased’s name
The deceased owned assets overseas and overseas probate is required
The beneficiaries want to have the estate distributed in different portions
Jointly appointed executor cannot agree on the estate administration process
Shares have to be sold in other countries (e.g. USA where so called Medallions signature is required)
Gifts fail because the will/estate plan was not updated frequently
The terms of the will are unclear and require interpretation
There is a dispute about whether the deceased had capacity when signing the will
The deceased left potentially ‘informal’ wills
There might be somewhere children of the deceased form a previous relationship
The beneficiaries cannot be located

Asquith Legal tries to make the probate process as easy as possible for everyone involved. Our estate lawyers use SETTIFY PROBATE, a highly sophisticated information gathering software that enable us to provide services at highly competitive rates.

When we provide you with a fixed fee for the probate application, we take into account that while the estate might be of significant value, the application process is straightforward.

Furthermore, we take into account the following when providing discounted quotes:

Whether the will is simple and unambiguous
Whether the estate structure is simple
2 or few numbers of executors
Other circumstances that make the application process straightforward

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