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A will written in another language can only be proved in Ireland in terms of a translation, and the Probate Office wants an affidavit from the translator who made it. We translate foreign wills, codicils and notarial records into certified English. Ask your solicitor how the affidavit the Probate Office describes should be handled. €29.95 per page, most wills delivered in 24 hours, ready for your solicitor’s application.
No account required. No commitment. Exact price in seconds.
Send a photo, scan or PDF of your last will & testament through our secure portal. We count the words and show you the exact price in euro straight away.
A professional translator completes your translation, and we attach a signed Certificate of Accuracy with our full contact details, company stamp and reference number.
Your certified translation arrives by email as a PDF, ready to submit. A hard copy by tracked post or an apostille can be added at checkout. 12-hour expedited service on request.
No add-ons hidden in the small print. Everything below is standard.
Worded to mirror the format Irish bodies publish: a statement that it is a true translation of the original, the date, the translator’s name and signature, and our address, phone and email.
We translate the will in full: the testator’s details, revocation clauses, appointment of executors, every bequest, condition and residuary gift, signatures, witness and notarial attestation clauses, registry or court filing notes, and any codicils. Handwritten passages are transcribed and translated, with illegible words marked, never guessed.
A native speaker with experience in your exact document type, never machine translation. The same translator across all your documents on request.
Every certificate carries our company stamp and a unique reference number, which several Irish registration bodies and the Foreign Births Register ask to see.
Emailed as a PDF on completion. Where the receiving body wants paper, add a hard copy sent by tracked post at checkout.
Free revisions until you are happy. If a receiving body rejects the translation, we revise it free or refund you in full.
€29.95 per page (300 source words); notarial wills with long attestations run longer than handwritten ones. For the Probate Office, the will also needs a translator’s affidavit, so check with your solicitor how it will be sworn and lodged. For a translated will going abroad, we arrange apostille certification on our translation from €149.95.
Irish probate practice has specific rules for wills in other languages. Here is where the translation fits into the process, based on Courts Service and Citizens Information guidance.
Where a will is not in English, a Probate Officer’s order to prove it in terms of a translation is needed before the grant application is lodged, under Order 79, rule 5(10).
The translator must have personally translated the will, give their credentials, exhibit the translation and swear that it is true and accurate. Your solicitor can advise how it should be handled.
The application also needs an affidavit from an independent lawyer with succession-law expertise in the country of domicile. If that affidavit is sworn in another language, it needs translating too.
Citizens Information notes that you must use a solicitor, rather than applying personally, where the deceased lived outside Ireland and left a will in a foreign language.
If the original will was proved or is kept abroad, the Probate Office asks for a sealed and certified copy from the court that holds it. We translate that copy, seals included.
Citizens Information advises making a will in each country where you own property. We translate Irish wills from English for lawyers and notaries in the country where the property is.
Same €29.95 per page whatever the language. These are the languages we see most often from clients in Ireland.
Every legal system has its own will forms, from handwritten holographic wills to notarial deeds recorded in a register. Here is what we see in wills from the countries our clients most often come from.
Polish wills are either handwritten (testament własnoręczny) or drawn up by a notary as a notarial deed (akt notarialny). Notarial wills carry a Repertorium number and a fee note, which we translate exactly as they appear.
Most Spanish wills are open notarial wills. Irish solicitors often also want the Certificado de Últimas Voluntades from the Registro General de Actos de Última Voluntad, confirming which will is the latest. We translate both.
A French handwritten will is usually deposited with a notaire, who draws up a record of its opening and description (procès-verbal d’ouverture et de description). We translate the will and the notarial record together.
German wills, including joint spouses’ wills (Berliner Testament), are opened by the probate court (Nachlassgericht), which issues an opening record (Eröffnungsprotokoll). We translate the will and the record as one set.
An Italian handwritten will is published by a notary in a formal record (verbale di pubblicazione di testamento olografo). Send the notary’s certified copy, and we translate both the will and the publication record.
Lithuanian wills are usually notarial (notarinis testamentas) and recorded in the Register of Wills (Testamentų registras). We translate the will, the notary’s certification and any register extract, keeping Lithuanian names exact.
Send a complete, legible copy of the will, every page including notarial endorsements. A native-speaker legal translator transcribes and translates it, keeping the paragraph numbering your solicitor will cite. You receive a signed, stamped PDF, and a hard copy by tracked post can be added at checkout.
