Testamentary Petition for Succession Certificate (Probate)

Your neighbour's father has died, and he left a will naming your neighbour as executor. The bank, the share registrar and the housing society all say the same thing: show us the court's grant. The will alone is not enough for them. A testamentary petition is the paper that turns a will into something an institution will act on. What goes into it, which court hears it, and what happens if a relative objects?

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A testamentary petition is the petition by which an executor asks the court for probate of the deceased's will; under s.276 of the Indian Succession Act 1925 it must annex the will and state the date of death, that the writing is the last will, that it was duly executed, the likely assets, and that the petitioner is the named executor.

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