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Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice 33rd ed


ISBN13: 9781474333610
Previous Edition ISBN: 9781474317177
To be Published: December 2025
Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £549.99





Widely recognised as the definitive authority on probate law and procedure, Tristram and Coote’s Probate Practice is extensively cited by Probate Registries and relied upon by legal professionals handling wills and estates.

This 33rd Edition incorporates all updates and changes since the 4th supplement to the 32nd Edition (2024) and consolidates every previous update since the 32nd edition in 2020. It provides practitioners with the most comprehensive, current, commentary and procedural guidance available.

Key Features:

  • authoritative commentary on all aspects of non-contentious probate practice and procedure
  • written by specialists from the judiciary, Probate Registry, and Capital Taxes Office.
  • referenced by HMCTS, official probate forms direct users to Tristram and Coote’s for the correct wording and guidance
  • includes recommended precedents approved by Probate Registrars
  • purchasers can request Word-format precedents by emailing customer.services@lexisnexis.co.uk.

Tristram and Coote’s Probate Practice is essential reading for Solicitors, probate registrars, estate administrators, and anyone involved in probate or estate administration who needs up-to-date forms, precedents, and authoritative commentary.

Subjects:
Wills and Probate
Contents:
Part I – The Common Form Probate Practice
1. The probate jurisdiction of the Family Division
2. General procedure
3. Wills and codicils
4. Probates
5. Letters of administration with the will annexed
6. Letters of administration
7. Minority or life interests and second administrators
8. HMRC accounts
9. Trust corporations
10. Settled land grants
11. Limited grants
12. Grant where deceased died domiciled out of England and Wales
13. Grants de bonis non – Cessate grants – Double probate
14. Right of the court to select an administrator; commorientes
15. Renunciation and retraction
16. Amendment and notation of grants
17. Revocation and impounding of grants
18. Resealing
19. Inventory and account
20. Deposit and registration of wills of living persons
21. Searches and copies – Exemplifications – Duplicate grants
22. Affidavits, affirmations, statements of truth / witness statements and statutory declarations
23. Caveats
24. Citations
25. Applications to district judge, registrar or High Court judge (non-contentious business)

Part II – Contentious Business
26. Introduction to contentious business
27. Claims
28. Parties to claims
29. Claim form
30. Acknowledgement of service
31. Testamentary documents
32. Statements of case generally
33. Particulars of claim
34. Defence and counterclaim
35. Reply and subsequent pleadings
36. Disclosure
37. Costs and case management of probate claims
38. Interim applications
39. Trial
40. Costs
41. Associated actions