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Where to get official UK documents when you鈥檙e abroad. Sometimes called notarial and document services.
Find out if you are an entitled relative and how to claim an estate from the Bona Vacantia division.
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鈥�
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Spain, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
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).
Tell Us Once helps you let most government departments and local councils know when someone dies. This guide tells you how to use it.
A guide for people who want to store their will or codicil (an update to the will) with HM Courts and Tribunals Service.
Use the online service to register a deceased person's estate if you鈥檙e an executor, administrator or personal representative.
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in Thailand, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Guidance for GP practices, hospitals, hospices and medical examiner offices about when to order more MCCDs and what to do with completed MCCDs.
Notify the Bona Vacantia division that a person has died without leaving a will or any known blood relatives.
Statutory and operational guidance for clinical commissioning groups and local authorities as child death review partners.
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.
The process when a British national dies in Germany, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person鈥檚 body to the UK.
The process when a British national dies in Turkey, including registering the death, funerals and bringing the person鈥檚 body to the UK.
The Government is introducing legislation to allow people to use video-conferencing technology for the witnessing of wills being made.
The process when a British national dies in Portugal, including registering the death, funerals and cremations, and bringing the person鈥檚 body to the UK.
How the death certification process in England and Wales will change from 9 September 2024, including the introduction of medical examiners.
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