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What happens if someone dies without a will?

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Wills, intestacy and estates — and an explainer that applies a jurisdiction's documented intestacy rules to the family you describe, listing every assumption.

If someone dies without a will

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Forms

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Forms Applying for a reduced fee for your OPG deputy fees Apply to pay less for Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) deputy assessment and supervision fees. Forms Applying for a reduced fee for your power of attorney Apply to pay less to register a lasting or enduring power of attorney. Forms Deputy annual report forms: accounting for your actions Forms for court-appointed deputies to report actions taken on behalf of their clients in the past year. Forms Disclaim a lasting power of attorney How to stop being an attorney under a lasting power of attorney (LPA). Forms Disclaim an enduring power of attorney How to stop being an attorney under an enduring power of attorney (EPA). Forms Guardian report form: missing person's finances and property Use this form to complete your annual report, to tell the Office of the Public Guardian about the decisions you’ve made for the person you’re a guardian for. Forms Lasting power of attorney forms Download the forms and guidance to make and register a lasting power of attorney (LPA). Forms Object to registration of a power of attorney Forms to object to the registration of a lasting power of attorney (LPA) or an enduring power of attorney (EPA). Forms Register a lasting power of attorney Forms and guidance to register a lasting power of attorney (LPA) made using forms LP PA, LP PW, LPA114 or LPA117. Forms Register an enduring power of attorney Forms and guidance to register an enduring power of attorney (EPA). Forms Request a search of the OPG registers Use the forms on this page to find out if someone has an attorney, deputy or guardian acting for them.

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Sources Administration of Estates Act 1925 s.46 (as amended)