Estate Administration
Our team regularly provides professional administration services to executors and administrators to ensure the administration is carried out in accordance with the relevant legislation including:
- Assistance with locating last will and obtaining death certificate
- Advising executors and beneficiaries on their rights and obligations
- Applying for grants of administration, including probate applications, letters of administration and limited grants
- Advice on superannuation and its effect on the estate (including an executor’s duties)
- Advice on ways which costs can be limited in administering the estate
- Attend to transmission of the deceased’s property having regard to the terms of the will
- Notification to the relevant government authorities of the death of the deceased person
- Collect assets payable to the estate
- Pay liabilities owed by the estate from estate funds collected
- Preparation of estate accounts
- Make a final estate distribution
- Filing of caveats
- Administering insolvent estates
- Advising on and administering complex estates
- Locating and advising beneficiaries of their entitlements
- Administering testamentary trusts
- Applications to the court for directions during the administration when the court’s supervision or guidance might be required
- Applications to the court to remove executors who are neglecting their duties or are otherwise in breach of their duties
- Advise of the possibility of claims against the estate
For more information read our Factsheet on Legal Advice to the Executor of a Deceased Estate