# Northern Ireland probate and estate route

Browser-rendered handoff of repository-authored Markdown. Source identity: `services/northern-ireland-probate-estate.md`. Links and original summaries are shown; external source content is not redistributed.

    ---
    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.