14 articles tagged with Probate.
Grant of Probate timelines, HMCTS fees, IHT400 vs IHT205, the chicken-and-egg IHT problem, and a 15-point executor checklist for 2026.
Online will-writing services are cheaper and faster than a solicitor, but the Law Commission has flagged real concerns about validity and vulnerability. When a DIY digital will is fine, and when it genuinely isn't.
Inheritance Tax and Capital Gains Tax on an inherited property are two separate taxes charged on two different events. Here's exactly where each one applies, why paying one doesn't excuse the other, and how the probate value links them.
How Capital Gains Tax applies when you sell a property you've inherited in 2026/27, including how the probate value sets your acquisition cost, the 60-day reporting deadline, and shared inheritance between siblings.
What happens when you inherit a rental property that still has a buy-to-let mortgage attached, including lender consent-to-transfer rules, probate timelines and the CGT base cost reset.
How to apply for a grant of probate in England and Wales in 2026/27 — the application fee, when probate is actually needed, typical timescales, and what executors must do first.
How Capital Gains Tax applies when executors sell an inherited property during probate in 2026/27 — the probate value uplift, the executors' annual exemption, and reporting deadlines.
Probate application fees are a flat £300, but total executor costs can run into thousands. Here's the full cost picture — court fees, solicitor fees, and DIY probate — for 2026.
CGT on an inherited property is calculated from the probate value, not what the deceased originally paid. How the base cost, allowances and 60-day reporting rule work.
You can't sell a probate property until the grant of probate is issued. What executors need to arrange first, typical timelines, and practical pitfalls that catch families out.
A plain-English guide to UK intestacy rules for 2026: who inherits without a will, the spouse statutory legacy, and how inheritance tax interacts.
A plain-English guide to the UK probate process in 2026/27 - what probate is, who applies, how long it takes, fees, and how Inheritance Tax fits in.
