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Plain-English guides to Irish inheritance law — written for the person the will forgot, the beneficiary kept waiting, and the family watching an estate freeze.
How Section 117 Claims Work
The moral-duty test, from the standpoint of a prudent and just parent.
Provision ClaimsThe Section 117 Six-Month Time Limit
The cruellest deadline in Irish law - and why the grant date is everything.
Provision ClaimsAdult Children’s Inheritance Claims
Independence doesn’t bar the claim - the whole picture decides.
Provision ClaimsThe Disinherited Spouse
The legal right share: the entitlement no will can defeat.
Provision ClaimsCohabitant Inheritance Rights
No automatic share - but a real redress scheme on an urgent clock.
Provision ClaimsStepchildren & Blended Family Estates
Second marriages, competing claims, and the disputes they generate.
ValidityTestamentary Capacity & Dementia
A diagnosis begins the inquiry - the records and the will file answer it.
ValidityProving Undue Influence
Coercion, circumstance, and the suspicious-circumstances doctrine.
ValidityDIY & Homemade Wills: The Failure Patterns
Where kitchen-table wills die - witnesses, formalities, alterations.
ValidityLost Wills & Copies
The presumption of destruction, and how copies get admitted to proof.
ValidityMarriage Revokes a Will
The least-known rule in Irish succession law rewrites estates regularly.
ExecutorsThe Executor Won’t Distribute
The executor’s year, the duties, and the letter that moves most estates.
ExecutorsRemoving an Executor
When and how the court replaces a personal representative.
ExecutorsExecutor Duties & Risks
The fiduciary job description - and the personal liability behind it.
ExecutorsHow Long Probate Takes in Ireland
The honest 2026 timeline: assembly, the office, administration.
ExecutorsWhy Probate Applications Get Rejected
Jurats, name inconsistencies - and the queue place rejection costs.
DisputesCaveats: Stopping a Grant
The emergency brake - and the fourteen-day clock behind it.
DisputesWho Pays the Costs of Inheritance Disputes?
The probate costs traditions, honestly stated - protection for reasonable challenges only.
DisputesMediation in Inheritance Disputes
Why family estate fights mediate better than almost anything in law.
DisputesJoint Bank Accounts on Death
Survivorship or convenience? The name on the account never ends it.
InternationalThe Non-Resident Executor of an Irish Estate
Abroad with Irish assets to administer: the requirements, the PPSN bottleneck, the remote file.
InternationalWhy Ireland Won’t Reseal Your Foreign Grant
The stamp from home means nothing here - and knowing early is worth months.
InternationalIrish Shares in a Foreign Estate
The registrar wants an Irish grant - and old holdings reconstruct.
InternationalThe PPS Number Bottleneck
Irish identity numbers for people who never lived here - the item that sets the timeline.
InternationalThe Inherited Irish Holiday Home
No Irish connection except the cottage - and the cottage is enough.
InternationalIs a Foreign Will Valid in Ireland?
Form is generous, language is a translation - substance is the real question.
InternationalDied Abroad, No Will, Assets in Ireland
Two countries’ intestacy rules, split by asset type, one Irish grant.
InternationalBrussels IV and the Irish Opt-Out
Europe harmonised succession; Ireland declined - every EU estate with Irish assets lives with it.
InternationalIrish Statutory Rights in Foreign Estates
The foreign will meets Irish land - and Irish law’s protections arrive with it.
InternationalCredit Union Accounts, Prize Bonds & Small Holdings
The merciful corner: where the no-grant shortcuts live, and where they stop.