Our Estate Service is designed to help you with everything that's involved in Estate Administration start to finish.

The Estate Service is designed to make life easier for you, while still giving you overall control of the process.

What Estate Service Covers

• Probate Service

• Administration Service

• Organising the sale or transfer of property

• Helping with making funeral arrangements, preparing property for sale, arranging security or maintenance

• Arranging payment of gifts and distributions from the estate

• Helping to resolve disagreements between beneficiaries and manages any legal issues

• Managing complex assets such as businesses, timeshares, Māori land, overseas property and overseas assets

• Confirming and collecting overseas assets or liabilities

• Providing legal advice 

• Providing special assistance, such as re-homing pets, house clearance, shipping of personal jewellery, sale of high value belongings etc.

The complete journey

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As much help as you need

Our Executor Assist Estate Service provides all the assistance you need as an Executor of a Will.

If you don’t wish to be Executor, you can step down as executor and we’ll take care of the entire process for you.

Alternatively, you can decide which part you want support with, by choosing the appropriate service:

• Probate Service

• Administration Service, or

• Estate Service.

Pricing

The fee for Estate Service is based on the work we do, not on a percentage of the estate.

We offer a full range of services, so you can choose how much assistance you require from us. We charge a combination of fixed fees and hourly rates, depending on the tasks involved. You can have peace of mind that there won’t be any unexpected costs.