Type of grant (LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION)

LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.

This would be the appropriate grant where there is no will capable of being admitted to probate. This will be the appropriate grant in most cases where there is a total intestacy. Administrators derive their authority from the grant and have no power to act before it is issued.

Rule 22 Non Contentious Probate Rules contains the order of people entitled to take out this grant.  The order basically follows the order of entitlement to the estate itself under the intestacy rules.

The full order is: -

(a)       the surviving spouse

(b)       the children of the deceased and the…