Event review · a review falls due

You've received an inheritance

A secondary event — not because it matters less, but because it modifies your existing state rather than placing a substitute operator in control. Its significance is in what happens if you don't review.

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What changes

Receiving assets can shift your own Inheritance Tax exposure, change what your will should do, and date your nominations. The operational risk is deferral — the review that never happens before the next primary event.

Records to locate

An updated picture of your own estate value after the inheritance
Your current will against the new asset position
Pension and insurance nominations that may now be out of proportion

Authority to prove

Your own executor and attorney appointments — still the right people?

Formal requirements

A larger estate may cross IHT thresholds — the April 2027 pension transition is the most distorting change in a generation
A deed of variation may be relevant within the statutory window in some circumstances

Immediate actions

Re-model your own IHT position with the new assets
Check the will still distributes as you intend
Refresh nominations that the windfall has unbalanced

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What to do, in order

One thing to do this week, one tool to use now, one conversation to have. Each routes into a free Valoren tool — no card, no sign-up to start.

This week

Re-model your estate

Run your updated estate against current law, with April 2027 pension-reform handling. Free, no email gate.

Open the IHT Calculator →

The tool

Records Roadmap

A 4-click diagnostic for getting your now-larger estate's records into a current, usable state.

Open the Roadmap →

The conversation

With your adviser

An inheritance is a natural review point for the will, nominations and IHT plan together. Valoren can route you to a Bureau Partner.

Bureau Partner intro →

Forms you may need — each a plain-English walkthrough

IHT400Full Inheritance Tax account

Rather have it done for you?

Signum can refresh your estate index after an inheritance so the will, nominations and IHT picture stay current.

See Signum →

Free guides

Bank Notification LettersFree

Beneficiary Reconciliation CertificateFree

Cancellation PackFree

Estate Asset SummaryFree

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When you're ready to build

Make the records this event needs — once, properly.

Valoren builds and keeps the household record to the Estate Standard, so the next continuity event finds everything already in place.

Continuity layer

What this becomes inside Valoren

Stored in your records system

The information you've just shared lives in your Valoren records — encrypted, organised, ready when you or your trusted person needs it.

The path you've just seen lives inside Valoren as the starting shape of your continuity system.

Each step on it becomes a record, a relationship, or a document — held current, surfaced when it matters, visible to the people who need it.

Kept current for you

Tax thresholds change. Pension rules change. Family circumstances change.

Your records system updates the relevant outputs when they do — no need to redo this.

Surfaced when it matters

The right document for the right moment. Day-one of a bereavement. A capacity event. An executor's first hour.

The system already knows what to produce.

Visible to the people who need it

Your trusted person sees what you've chosen to share, when you've chosen to share it.

No password handover. No "where are the documents." A real continuity layer above your will.

Keep this

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Practical guide, not legal advice. Prepared 12 September 2026. ES-2026.

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