Irish Probate for Foreign Lawyers

Correspondent Irish counsel for the estate’s Irish limb: you keep the client, we extract the grant and deal with the assets — scoped, quoted and reported like professional work should be.

You are administering an estate in your own jurisdiction and the schedule contains Irish assets. You already know the headline: Ireland does not reseal foreign grants — the Irish limb needs a fresh Irish grant, extracted here by an Irish solicitor, under rules that make Irish representation mandatory for most non-resident estates in any event. What you need is not a lecture on Irish law but a reliable Irish end: correctly analysed, competently executed, predictably priced, and reported so you always know where it stands. That is this service.

The Starting Bundle

Send what you have of the following — gaps are normal and the first reply identifies them:

  • Death certificate (civil, with translation if not in English or Irish);
  • The will — original or, where a grant has issued in your jurisdiction, a court-sealed certified copy of the grant with will annexed (the single most useful document on the file: it evidences death, domicile and entrustment, and usually decides entitlement to the Irish grant);
  • Certified translations for foreign-language documents;
  • The Irish asset schedule: institutions, account/folio/registrar references, approximate euro values at death;
  • The people: deceased’s details including domicile analysis if you have formed one, the personal representative, and the beneficiaries with countries of residence (it drives the mandatory-solicitor and PPSN questions);
  • Anything contentious on the horizon — flagged early, because Ireland’s succession rules can touch Irish immovables in ways home-jurisdiction wills don’t anticipate, and this practice’s litigation half sits behind the same door.

The reply maps the grant type, the entitlement analysis, the outstanding documents, the realistic timeline and a fixed-scope quote — before any commitment on either side.

Why This Practice, Lawyer to Lawyer

  • TEP-led: the practice principal is a Trust and Estate Practitioner through STEP — the international estate-specialist body many of your own private-client colleagues belong to, with the shared vocabulary that makes cross-border files move;
  • Both halves of probate: administration is the foundation and estate litigation the standing capability — the Irish limb that turns contentious does not need a second referral;
  • Procedural completeness: the SA.2, PPSN applications for non-resident parties, the solicitor-as-agent appointment, eProbate lodgment with consistency policed — the rejection-proof application as a professional standard, because rejection costs the queue place;
  • Clean lane discipline: we do not advise on tax — the estate’s tax advisers keep that ground on both sides, and we coordinate rather than compete;
  • Two offices, one door: Dublin (beside the Probate Office and the Four Courts) and Kilkenny, established 1981.

Frequently Asked Questions

As you prefer, agreed at the outset in writing: most professional referrers instruct us as their Irish agents — you remain the client relationship’s owner and our reporting line, with the personal representative as the underlying client for the Irish steps that require it (the oath, the SA.2, the grant application run in their name). Engagement terms, scope and the conflict position are confirmed before work begins, and we stay inside the Irish limb: the main administration, and the advice your client takes on it, remain entirely yours.

An Irish Limb on Your File?

Email the bundle - or the gaps - to richardoshea@marymolloysolicitors.com. The reply maps grant type, entitlement, documents, timeline and a fixed-scope quote. Professional undertakings honoured; reporting built in.

Call 01 5827148

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