Probate help

[Lauren Solomon]

Hi all,

I’ve come across this website whilst searching for probate help.

Hopefully someone might be able to help me out.

My father suddenly passed away in july and didn’t have a will.

My mum was named as beneficiary on everything to be left such as life insurance, pensions etc.

One of the private pension companies require probate, so we are on In the process of completing the forms.

It’s the assets section where we are stuck.

From what I can gather, given that my mum was a beneficiery on all policies that were required to pay out following death, am I right in thinking that the only things to go on that section are my dads ‘share’ of the house and his car?
All bank accounts etc were joint.

Many thanks

 

[Lauren Solomon]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for your input!

We’ve managed to fill in the probate form with all the required information.

Having had one quote, plus a couple say ‘we can’t say how much until we do it’ we decided to give it a go ourselves. I just wanted to be 100% sure about what is/isn’t an asset, so thank you for confirming it.

I’ve dealt with the majority of the policies, however the pensions are the only ones my mum dealt with. One didn’t require probate so I will certainly be getting in touch to double check the need for probate.

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge on the matter!