Estate timeline estimator
Choose the estate's shape and see the stages ahead: opening the estate, the SA.2, the grant, administration and distribution, and where farm, cross-border and contested elements change the path.
Is there a valid will?
What kind of estate is it?
Is a dispute expected: a will challenge, section 117 claim or executor conflict?
Locating the original will, confirming executors willing to act, first consultation and letters to institutions.
Date-of-death balances, property valuation and beneficiary details assembled, then the Statement of Affairs (SA.2) filed with Revenue.
The application is lodged through the Probate Office or the District Probate Registry at Kilkenny. Registry processing times vary through the year and are outside anyone's control; queried papers add weeks each round, which is why they should be right first time.
Assets collected, debts paid in their statutory order, property sold or transferred by assent, and the estate accounts prepared.
Distribution generally follows the claim windows closing and the spouse's election where applicable, against final estate accounts. Beneficiaries cannot usually compel distribution within the executor's year.
This estimator shows the stages of a typical administration, not a promised timescale: no timescale can be promised for any estate, and registry processing times, valuations, title issues and disputes all move the picture. It is general information, not legal advice, and nothing you select here is saved or transmitted. For an assessment of an actual estate, use the contact page.