Probate office queries

Would anyone know if queries are to be raised by the probate office on an application do all the possible queries they may have get raised and sent out at the same time?

The estate solicitor has been asked two relatively smallish queries by the probate office..Does that usually mean that the probate office has gone through the whole application and only found two queries or could more queries follow?

I'm desperate to get it all through due to a difficult beneficiary.

Will the application go to the back of the queue now ?

Just for clarity, the "estate solicitor" is your legal representative in these matters, the executor's solicitor; as the executor, you are the instructing client.

Are the queries the result of omissions or errors by your solicitor? If you don't know, ask.

Who knows what the probate office might find; the response(s) from your solicitor might trigger another query.

I have no idea how scheduling work at the probate office operates. I would assume the revised application goes to the back of queue. Your solicitor would know what happens to new work vs re-work.

Thank you Mathepac. One query is a signature & the other is a Dr's letter. Both straightforward.

There’s no guarantee they won’t find something else to query further down the line but in my experience, the queries raised at this stage represent everything that needs to be clarified.

Sailorgirk said:

Will the application go to the back of the queue now

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I did a DIY probate last year.
There were 3 separate enquiries.
These were all dealt with very quickly and there was no delay in issuing probate.

Did not result in going to back of queue.

Thank you S class. So your enquiries didn't all come to you at the same time ?

Sailorgirk said:

So your enquiries didn't all come to you at the same time ?

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No, they all came separately. Each time I had to amend the application form and post it back.
All of this didn't result in any delays to to processing time.

Hi What probate office were you dealing ?? That’s great that re delays how long did the entire process take ?? thank you

@Sailorgirk hi would you have any update re your probate application please ? Did your queries go back to the bottom of the queue ?? How long was the entire process thank you

newmoon - Dublin office and all queries were fully responded to and sent back to the probate office by the executor mid March as there was a delay getting the requested medical information due to the doctor being away. It then took around 2 months and probate was awarded mid May. So the entire process was: Application sent in mid Jan , Queries raised by the probate office mid Feb, Response to these queries not sent back to the probate office until Mid March and then probate just granted Mid May. I don't really know where it sat in the queue once we returned the queries Mid March but no other queries arose and we were happy to be through with it Mid May.

@Sailorgirk THANK YOU so much for your reply greatly appreciated.