NRS-12409 | Deceased estate files [Public Trustee]

Full description

These files contain all legal documents and primary correspondence pertaining to a particular estate, all routine correspondence and accounting documents having been culled. The material remaining may include: a copy of the will; releases or withdrawal letters; section 93 and 94B notices; receipted Commonwealth and State duty assessment; tax clearance letter; the original probate parchment or election to administer an estate under section 50 of the Public Trustee Act; entitlement approvals; the deceased's death certificate; family tree and supporting documents; deeds of family arrangement; sale of real estate cover; receipts for deeds - devisee's trust, agency or notice of death matters. Supporting documents, such as certificates, may be earlier than the date of the individual file.

These files include both Head Office and Branch Office Deceased estate files. Until 1982 the files were arranged in an annual sequential numbering system by Head Office. Generally the file number is in the form number / year (in two digits), (an example is 115/17 for the 115th file of 1917). In 1982 that system was altered so that each Branch Office had its own annual sequential numbering system for its files (see NRS 12413-12417).

Until 1967 the Deceased estate files also included the Damages Trusts and Section 47 files. From 1967 onwards these files were kept as a separate series and can be found at NRS 12410.