Has anyone had experience of this? If so, is it pretty straightforward? After five years of deputyship duty my mum died last November. I'm her sole executor. Her will and estate, and thus probate, is really straightforward. Now I'm beginning to deal with probate I find that it's possible to do this online, although obviously some documents have to be sent off, such as the original will, which I have in my possession. In order to carry out probate online I first needed to register the estimated value of the estate (which is below inheritance tax threshold) with HMRC. Again, if HMRC accepted I was in a position to do so, I could do this online.
Today, I've done the Inheritence Tax thing online, and got all the information I needed to set up probate online with the govt website. I've started that going and it looks like it will be pretty simple and I'll end up with the Grant of Probate I need for the couple of financial institutions that hold my mum's accounts before too long. I suppose what I'm asking is not so much 'Is it straightforward', because it certainly seems to be, but is it a good idea to do it that way, if you can? Or has anyone had issues that have come up later after processing probate online?
Today, I've done the Inheritence Tax thing online, and got all the information I needed to set up probate online with the govt website. I've started that going and it looks like it will be pretty simple and I'll end up with the Grant of Probate I need for the couple of financial institutions that hold my mum's accounts before too long. I suppose what I'm asking is not so much 'Is it straightforward', because it certainly seems to be, but is it a good idea to do it that way, if you can? Or has anyone had issues that have come up later after processing probate online?