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Where to get official UK documents when you’re abroad. Sometimes called notarial and document services.
Guidance for medical practitioners completing a medical certificate of cause of death in England and Wales.
Definitions of medical practitioner and medical examiner All references to…
Find out if you are an entitled relative and how to claim an estate from the Bona Vacantia division.
Tell Us Once helps you let most government departments and local councils know when someone dies. This guide tells you how to use it.
What to do, including registering the death, post mortems, bringing the body to the UK and getting help from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
Guidance for GP practices, hospitals, hospices and medical examiner offices about when to order more MCCDs and what to do with completed MCCDs.
Use the online service to register a deceased person's estate if you’re an executor, administrator or personal representative.
A guide for people who want to store their will or codicil (an update to the will) with HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Spain, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.
How the death certification process in England and Wales will change from 9 September 2024, including the introduction of medical examiners.
This is guidance to medical practitioners on notifying deaths to the coroner.
Use the online service to update details of an estate, authorise an agent, or close an estate.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in France, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Notify the Bona Vacantia division that a person has died without leaving a will or any known blood relatives.
The Government is introducing legislation to allow people to use video-conferencing technology for the witnessing of wills being made.
Many UK-based organisations can offer assistance, support and information to those affected by a death abroad.
The process when a British national dies in Germany, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person’s body to the UK.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK.
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