# Administer an estate

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    ---
    type: "Service Family"
    title: "Administer an estate"
    description: "Normalized family for obtaining jurisdiction-specific estate authority and tracing assets, debts, tax and distribution boundaries."
    status: "implemented"
    assertion_status: "normalized"
    jurisdiction: "nation-and-estate-specific"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
    sources:
      - id: "bereavement-source-register"
        title: "Death, bereavement and estate linked-reference register"
        resource: "../source/death-bereavement-estate.v1.yaml"
        author: "organisation:okf-uk-living"
        observed_at: "2026-08-07"
    ---

    # Administer an estate

    This normalized family distinguishes an England and Wales grant of
    representation, Scottish confirmation and a Northern Ireland grant. It also
    separates the authority document from later asset, debt, tax and distribution
    work.

    The implementations are the [England and Wales probate route](england-wales-probate-estate.md),
    [Scottish confirmation route](scotland-confirmation-estate.md) and
    [Northern Ireland probate route](northern-ireland-probate-estate.md). The bundle
    does not decide whether a grant is required, who may apply, tax liability,
    insolvency, a dispute or a beneficiary's entitlement.