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The first hour after a death should not start with a search.

Prepare the records, contacts and dated instructions whoever acts as your executor needs — drawn from your own records.

✓ Updated 2026 · England & Wales
Included with the Household Continuity Dossier
WHAT IT CONTAINS
1
Where the will is, and who the executors are
The first question, answered before the search begins.
2
Accounts, policies and providers
With each provider's bereavement route — who to call, in what order.
3
What freezes, what doesn't, what's at risk
Sole accounts freeze; direct debits stop; joint accounts continue. Mapped in advance.
4
A dated who-to-contact sequence
Not a pile of documents — an order of operations for the first hour and the first week.

A probate solicitor's first hours are spent on data discovery — finding what you owned, who held it, where the paperwork is. The Executor Briefing means an executor walks straight to the answer. Prepared from your records; reviewed by you; not legal advice.

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