Probate in Ireland from the USA

The home place, the shares, the account nobody closed — the Irish grant for American executors, attorneys and Irish-American families, run entirely across the Atlantic.

The Irish-American estate has a recurring shape: the American administration proceeds smoothly until the schedule reaches the Irish line — the field that was never sold, the shareholding on an Irish register, the bank account from the years before emigration. No American grant touches it: Ireland requires a fresh Irish grant, and this page is the transatlantic map — what the US paperwork is worth, what Ireland adds, and how the whole file runs on email, video calls and a courier account.

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 Transatlantic File, Step by Step

  • The exemplified copy: a court-certified/exemplified copy of the US grant with will annexed, ordered from the issuing court early — it proves the entrustment that usually decides who takes the Irish grant;
  • Apostilles and notarial swearing: American documents authenticated under the Hague Convention where required, papers sworn before US notaries — we specify document-by-document;
  • The Irish asset reconstruction: Land Registry folios traced, registrars written to for the share history, dormant accounts pursued — the decades-old Irish asset is a speciality, not an obstacle;
  • PPS numbers, started day one: the SA.2 demands them for parties who never lived in Ireland — the transatlantic file’s commonest bottleneck, attacked in parallel;
  • The application through eProbate: names identical across every document (rejection costs the queue place), with the mandatory Irish solicitor-as-agent appointment handled where the non-resident rules require it;
  • After the grant: assets gathered, Irish property sold from the US, dollar-side distribution coordinated with your American advisers — tax to the accountants, always.

Old Estates, Cold Assets — the Irish-American Speciality

Emigration created a distinctive asset class: Irish property and shares held by people who died abroad long ago, sometimes requiring a chain of grants — administering an estate to reach an estate — before the land can move. The practice’s TEP foundation is built for exactly this reconstruction work, and the litigation half stands behind it for the files where the Irish asset turns contentious: the cousin in occupation, the Irish statutory rights the American will never considered, the intestacy nobody mapped. Two minutes on the Irish Grant Checker orients most situations; the full speciality lives at international probate.

Frequently Asked Questions

Not directly: no US grant — whichever state or county court issued it — has authority over Irish assets, and Ireland has no resealing mechanism to stamp it into effect. What the US paperwork does is anchor the Irish application: an exemplified or court-certified copy of the US grant (with the will annexed where there is one) evidences the death, the domicile and who the American court entrusted with the administration, which usually identifies the person entitled to extract the fresh Irish grant. Order the exemplified copy early — US registries have their own queues.

American Estate, Irish Assets?

Send the death certificate, the will or exemplified grant copy, and whatever is known about the Irish assets - even a townland name is a start. The reply maps the route, the documents, the timeline and the costs.

Call 01 5827148

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