Probate in Ireland from Australia

Australia reseals half the Commonwealth’s grants — but not Ireland’s, and Ireland reseals nobody’s. The fresh Irish grant, run across ten time zones on documents, not flights.

The Irish-Australian estate is emigration’s longest paper trail: the person who left for Sydney or Melbourne a lifetime ago, dying with Irish assets the Australian grant cannot touch — the home place never transferred, the shares never sold, the account never closed. Ireland requires a fresh Irish grant, extracted here under Irish rules; this page is the map for Australian executors, families and solicitors, built around the one thing the distance actually demands: a file that runs perfectly on documents.

Most people arrive at these pages while grieving. We run these files with that in mind: plain answers, no pressure, and matters moved forward so you don’t have to carry the process as well as the loss.

The Australia–Ireland File, Step by Step

  • The sealed copy: a court-sealed certified copy of the state Supreme Court grant, will annexed, ordered early — it proves the entrustment that usually decides entitlement to the Irish grant;
  • The Irish asset reconstruction: folios traced, registrars written to, dormant balances pursued — decades-old assets are the corridor’s speciality, and chains of grants are built where older deaths require them;
  • PPS numbers, day one: the SA.2 requires them for Australian-resident parties — the corridor’s commonest bottleneck, run in parallel with everything else;
  • Documents sworn where you are: Australian notaries and authorised witnesses, courier both ways, video calls in the overlap windows;
  • Lodged through eProbate, right first time: consistency policed across every document, because rejection costs the queue place;
  • After the grant: assets gathered, Irish property sold from Australia, distribution coordinated with your Australian advisers — tax questions routed to the accountants on each side, always.

Distance Changes Logistics, Not Standards

A TEP-led practice shares the STEP vocabulary with Australian private-client lawyers, the litigation half stands behind the same door for the file that turns contentious — the relative in occupation of the home place, the Irish statutory rights the Australian will never anticipated, the estate that sticks — and the working method treats the hemisphere gap as a scheduling detail. The Irish Grant Checker gives the two-minute orientation; the full speciality lives at international probate.

Frequently Asked Questions

No — and the irony is real: Australian registries reseal grants from many places under the Commonwealth arrangements, but Ireland sits entirely outside that system, in both directions. No Australian grant has effect over Irish assets, and where those assets are substantial (roughly €20,000 and always for Irish land), a fresh Irish grant is extracted through the Irish Probate Office. The Australian grant still earns its keep: a court-sealed certified copy, will annexed, anchors the Irish application and usually identifies who is entitled to the Irish grant.

Australian Estate, Irish Assets?

Email the death certificate, the will or sealed grant copy, and whatever is known about the Irish assets - the reply lands in your morning with the route, the documents, the timeline and the costs.

Call 01 5827148

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