Benjamin Franklin

As Benjamin Franklin once said: “nothing in life is certain – except death and taxes.” With that in mind, The Estate Registry, which offers a range of end of life admin products including NotifyNOW, InheritNOW

Strategic probate planning

As solicitors will be all too aware, delays in the probate process can have profound effects on both the estate and its beneficiaries. These delays have become a significant concern for both solicitors and their

Philips & Cohen

The Estate Registry (TER), the UK’s leading provider of digital estate management and bereavement notification services, has today urged all credit and financial service providers to offer streamlined bereavement support options to their customers. The

Despite the steady advance of technology into our everyday working lives, many probate professionals still find themselves bogged down in administrative tasks that can delay estate administration. As client expectations shift and digital assets become

As providers of digital death notification solutions, we work closely with probate solicitors, financial institutions, and multiple private sector organisations to streamline estate administration. What is clear from our experience is that the current death

Contested probate

Probate is a complicated process at the best of times and the landscape is continually shifting. In recent years it has been marked by a small but notable increase in the number of cases that

Digital estate planning

It’s a misconception that debts are written off after an individual dies. Many obligations, such as credit card balances, mortgages and car loans, remain tied to an estate and must be settled before any assets

In May, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued guidance to retail banks on how they should manage the bereavement process—part of a broader campaign to address consumer vulnerability. While the regulator’s efforts are commendable and

The Estate Registry, which owns bereavement notification services Settld and NotifyNOW, as well as LegacyNOW, welcomes the UK Law Commission’s recommendations on updating wills in England and Wales. The move recognises that most people in

When a loved one dies, it should be a simple case of calling and informing the creditor of their passing and wrapping up the estate. Only it isn’t. Ask anyone who has recently been through

In our recent report Probate or Pro-wait – how to make the hardest part of life easier, we recounted a story of how a bereaved widow had to contact more than 20 individual organisations to

Consumers’ experience of probate is almost universally poor, the process unnecessarily complicated, and the outcome often unfair. And while the bereaved have a single route to notify public sector organisations of a death through the

1921 census release: why it’s so significant

Clients are being treated unfairly by the system and are poorly served by the processes and platforms designed to help them. Reform is now urgently needed, with a call for the banks, energy firms and

For most consumers, engaging with anyone in the legal profession can be a daunting prospect. Not unusually, they are only obliged to seek legal help when they are in a vulnerable state. And there can

Digital processes are very much in demand but need to be easy for a non-digitally native generation to use. It was the American writer and technologist Marc Prensky who first coined the term ‘digital native’

Care Home Covid Deaths Decline For First Time

By Phil Hickson – SVP, Global Partnerships at The Estate Registry Why there is a need for a consistent, death notification service and why all consumer-facing organisations should have a dedicated bereavement services team and

LPA

By Phil Hickson – SVP, Global Partnerships at The Estate Registry There was some very interesting research recently published regarding Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) by Hargreaves Lansdown, the financial advisers. In a Freedom of

By Phil Hickson – SVP, Global Partnerships at The Estate Registry Studies from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) indicate the average time to issue a grant of probate last year was between 12 to 16

Care Home Covid Deaths Decline For First Time

Who ‘owns’ the death notification process within customer-led organisations and why are competing tensions threatening the evolution of new digital solutions? By Luke Cheadle, Head of UK Operations for The Estate Registry Death is a

By Luke Cheadle, Head of UK Operations for The Estate Registry There is a well-known saying that a cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. It’s attributed to a character in

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