Am in the UK and need to sell my late fathers shares, have no idea.where can i get some advice please

How do I sell my deceased father’s shares?

Selling Shares without a Share Certificate

1. Register the share certificate as missing. You can contact the share registrar to inform them that the share certificate is missing and they will ask you to pay an indemnity fee. …
2. Tick the option on the Share Sale Form to say the certificate is missing.

How do you sell a deceased persons shares?

You can send them the certificates along with a covering letter signed by yourself as executor and include the grant of probate. They will then sell the shares on your behalf.

Do you need probate to sell shares?

In these cases, it is usually up to the board of directors to decide whether or not they will require a Grant of Probate to be issued before actioning a sale or transfer. They may be agreeable to accepting other evidence instead, such as a certified copy of the Will.

What happens to a deceased person’s shares?

When a shareholder dies the right to his interest in the shares will pass to whoever inherits them under his will or intestacy. The deceased shareholder’s rights will be administered by his or her executors (if there is a will) or administrators of the estate if the shareholder has died intestate.

How do I find out if my late father had shares?

You will need to contact the registrars for the companies involved. For BP, the registrar is Link Asset Services and, for Lloyds Banking Group, it is Equiniti. The registrars will confirm how many shares are held in your father’s estate and provide you with details of the process for selling or transferring them.

How do you transfer inherited shares?

To facilitate a transfer, the executor will need a copy of the decedent’s will or a letter from the probate court confirming that the beneficiary in question is indeed the person entitled to receive the shares. The executor must then send these documents to a transfer agent, who can complete the transfer of ownership.

How much does an estate have to be worth to go to probate UK?

Probate is usually needed if the estate of the person who died is worth more than £10,000. You can read our guide on what is probate for more information. If most of the assets in the estate were jointly owned – such as a joint mortgage or bank account – probate may not be needed.

How do I sell shares UK?

you can sell shares by speaking to a broker or through a DIY investing platform. The cost of trading shares varies depending on the platform or broker you are using and whether you are selling your shares online, or in the case of paper certificates, on the phone or by post.

Who is entitled to see a will after death UK?

After an individual has passed away, the executor who is the person or people who have been appointed in the will to administer the estate is the only person entitled to see the will and read its contents.

What happens to bank account when someone dies without a will?

A checking or savings account (referred to as a deceased account after the owner’s death) is handled according to the deceased’s will. If no will was made, the deceased’s account will have to go through probate.

What happens to bank account when someone dies without a will UK?

In the UK bank and building society accounts are generally held by the joint account holders as ‘joint tenants. ‘ This means that when one account holder dies, the funds in the account automatically pass to the surviving account holder by the principles of survivorship.

How do I find out if I am a beneficiary in a will UK?

How do I know if I am the beneficiary of a will? Helen: If someone has left a will and you are a beneficiary of an estate, you would usually be contacted by the executor, or the solicitor the executor has instructed, to notify you that you are a beneficiary.

How do I find investments of a deceased person?

Sometimes an owner dies and his or her heirs fail to claim assets left to them because they don’t know about the inheritance. To search for these assets, go to www.missingmoney.com, which you can also reach by typing www.unclaimed.org and clicking on the MissingMoney.com link.

How do I claim stock from a deceased relative?

If you have a relative who died and owned shares of stock, you cannot simply claim them. Instead, the shares automatically become part of the decedent’s estate and will be distributed among the heirs and beneficiaries. Some times this is done through the probate process.

How does the bank know when someone dies?

The main way a bank finds out that someone has died is when the family notifies the institution. Anyone can notify a bank about a person’s death if they have the proper paperwork. But usually, this responsibility falls on the person’s next of kin or estate representative.

How do I find shares in my name?

approach. If you’re confident you’re a shareholder in a particular company, then you can start by contacting that company directly. It’s a company’s job to aid its shareholders where it reasonably can, you are their part owner after all.

How do I find shares in my name UK?

To track down lost shares the first step should be to contact the company’s share registrar, in cases where the company name is known. There are three main registrars in the UK – Capita, Lloyds TSB / Equiniti and ComputerShare. For contact information see below.

How do I find out if old shares are worth anything?

LSEG suggests the best way to see whether a shares certificate is still valid and worth selling is to consult a stockbroker. “It will cost you a small fee but, if there is money to be made from them, a stockbroker should help,” it says.

How can I check value of shares?

The most common way to value a stock is to compute the company’s price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. The P/E ratio equals the company’s stock price divided by its most recently reported earnings per share (EPS). A low P/E ratio implies that an investor buying the stock is receiving an attractive amount of value.