---
type: "Public Service Route"
title: "Northern Ireland probate and estate route"
description: "Official Northern Ireland grant, no-will and debt guidance with separate HMRC valuation and tax dependencies."
status: "observed"
assertion_status: "official"
service_family: "administer-an-estate"
jurisdiction: "northern-ireland"
providers: ["northern-ireland-courts-and-tribunals-service", "hm-revenue-and-customs"]
observed_at: "2026-08-07"
sources:
  - id: "nidirect-apply-probate"
    title: "Apply for probate"
    resource: "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/services/apply-probate"
    author: "organisation:northern-ireland-courts-and-tribunals-service"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "nidirect-no-will"
    title: "What to do if there is no will"
    resource: "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/what-do-if-there-no-will"
    author: "organisation:northern-ireland-courts-and-tribunals-service"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "nidirect-debt-after-death"
    title: "Debt when someone dies"
    resource: "https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/debt-when-someone-dies"
    author: "organisation:northern-ireland-executive"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "govuk-value-estate"
    title: "How to value an estate for Inheritance Tax and report its value"
    resource: "https://www.gov.uk/valuing-estate-of-someone-who-died"
    author: "organisation:hm-revenue-and-customs"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "govuk-inheritance-tax"
    title: "Inheritance Tax"
    resource: "https://www.gov.uk/inheritance-tax"
    author: "organisation:hm-revenue-and-customs"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
---

# Northern Ireland probate and estate route

NICTS supplies the Northern Ireland grant-of-representation application.
nidirect separately identifies letters of administration where there is no
will and explains the estate-debt boundary. These are not the England and
Wales probate service or Scottish confirmation.

[NICTS](../organisations/northern-ireland-courts-and-tribunals-service.md) and
[HMRC](../organisations/hm-revenue-and-customs.md) retain their own authority.
The bundle does not decide the applicant, need for a grant, debt priority,
solvency, tax or distribution.
