Dealing with an estate

Probate & Estate Administration

Keep estate administration clear and organised: the inventory, valuations, organisations, correspondence and estate money, with probate if required.

A stone-walled path leading through a wooden gate towards a distant English village

How administering an estate works

The same order an executor works through it, with the records kept as you go. Select a step to see what to record and what to do next.

  1. What this means

    Before anything else can be valued or reported, you need a full list of everything the person owned and owed at the date of death.

    What to record

    • Property
    • Bank and building society accounts
    • Savings
    • Investments
    • Pensions and death benefits, where relevant
    • Personal possessions
    • Money owed to the deceased
    • Debts and liabilities

What Probate includes

  • Estate dashboard
    Coming soon
  • Assets & liabilities
    Coming soon
  • Lifetime gifts
  • Organisation tracker
    Coming soon
  • Probate readiness
    Coming soon
  • Document vault
  • Beneficiaries
    Coming soon
  • Estate ledger
    Coming soon
  • Estate accounts
    Coming soon
  • Executor collaboration
    Coming soon
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ClearHandover Understand

Difficult paperwork, made clearer

Paste wording from a letter or form and see what it appears to mean in plain English:

  • Understand difficult estate correspondence
  • Identify important actions
  • Identify dates and deadlines
  • Prepare questions to ask
  • See the official guidance that applies
Explain a letter

It explains and organises information. It does not provide legal advice.