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When you apply for Probate yourself (instead of paying a lawyer to do it for you), here are the steps you go through:

• Find the Will and see who it appoints as executor(s)
• Decide how to apply for Probate. (See the "Your Probate Options" link to the right). We assume that have decided to do it yourself - good idea !
• Buy your Probate Kit (you can just click on our website order button to do that)
• Register your kit to get access to our online probate content
• Select one of our sample applications - for an easy-to-follow explanation of you how to fill out your application
• Prepare your application
• Lodge the application at the Probate Office (and pay the lodging fee)
• After about a week the Probate certificate turns up in your letterbox.
• Use your Probate certificate to authorise asset-holders (like banks, superannuation companies etc) to release assets to you
• Having gained control of the assets, distribute them to beneficiaries as the Will says.

Our long-proven Probate Kit takes you through the application process and gives you the paperwork on which to do it.