CPD
8. Probate: Applying for Grants and Orders
Speaker - Keith Biggs
- Course Ref:
- PAGO/8/10.3.2010
- Date:
- Wednesday 10th March 2010
- Time:
- 2.00pm - 5.15pm Registration 1.30pm with tea and coffee
- Venue:
- Denbies Suite, First Floor. Denbies Wine Estate, Dorking View on Google Maps
- CPD:
- 3 hours
- Cost:
- £111.63 inc 17.5%VAT (SLS Members) £223.25 inc 17.5%VAT (Non-Members)
Course outline
Part 1. Wills
• Avoiding problems on execution
• Dealing with problems of execution when proving
Part 2. Applying for Grants
• Requirements of the 1987 Rules
• De bonis non grants
• Cessate grants
• Deceased domiciled outside UK
• Renunciation
Part 3. Applying for orders for grants
• Wills: Missing; rectifying or interpreting
• Minor entitled
• Mental incapacity
• Leave to swear death
• Passing over executors/administrators
• Temporary grants
Part 4. Caveats
• When, how and where to apply
Part 5. Searches and obtaining copy Wills and Grants
• Standing Searches
• Copies for use abroad
Standard: Intermediate/Advanced
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About the speaker(s)
Keith Biggs was the District Probate Registrar at Winchester for twenty years until 2004. He has lectured in Probate Law since 1987 and is the author of ‘The Practitioner’s Guide to Probate’ (now in its 7th Edition) and a contributor to ‘Administration of Estates’ and ‘The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precendents (Wills and Administration)’ all published by Lexis Nexis Butterworths Tolley. He is the co-author of ‘Probate and the Administration of Estates: The Law and Practice’ and ‘A Step-by-Step Guide to Wills and Probate’ both published by Callow Publishing. The latter book being for the lay-public.
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