{"id":41,"date":"2019-08-18T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T11:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2019-08-18T17:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T16:03:13","slug":"has-somebody-died","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"Probate &#8211; when somebody dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>When a person dies, somebody has to deal with their affairs. This is called <strong>administering the estate<\/strong>. If there is a Will, it will name people to act as executors and these are the people who administer the estate. <strong>We will assist<\/strong>  the executors in applying for a Grant of Probate ,  for example proving  the Will is valid so the executors can access all the  assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIf there is no Will then we will assist anyone who has a right to apply \nto  administer the estate, and access the assets, for what is known as a\n Grant of Letters of Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nWhen is a Grant of Probate or Grant of Letters of Administration needed?\n  If the person who has died has left less than a total of \u00a35,000.00, or\n owned everything jointly with someone else, then it is quite often not \nneeded.  However, even if the estate is less than this, some financial \norganisations may require a formal Grant.  Some banks may agree to pay \nthe funds to a personal representative without obtaining a formal Grant.\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person dies, somebody has to deal with their affairs. This is called administering the estate. If there is a Will, it will name people to act as executors and these are the people who administer the estate. We will assist the executors in applying for a Grant of Probate , for example proving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annaarthur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}