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When someone dies domiciled abroad but leaves property in Ireland, the Probate Office asks for proof of who is entitled under the law of their home country: a sealed copy of the foreign grant, or an affidavit of law. Certificates of inheritance, court succession orders and supporting affidavits are translated into certified English; ask your solicitor how any translator’s affidavit should be handled. €29.95 per page, most documents in 24 hours.
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Send a photo, scan or PDF of your probate documents 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 issuing court or notary, file number, the deceased’s details, date of death and last domicile, the heirs and their shares, whether succession is testate or intestate, executors’ or administrators’ powers, any limitations, finality or registration notes, and every seal, stamp and certification.
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. A notarial certificate of inheritance is often two to four pages, while a court file with an affidavit of law can be longer, so upload it for an exact quote. Documents lodged at the Probate Office may need a translator’s affidavit, so check with your solicitor how it will be sworn.
The Courts Service sets out what the Probate Office needs when the deceased was domiciled outside Ireland. These are the documents that usually need translating, and why.
To show entitlement under the law of the country of domicile, you lodge a sealed and certified copy of the grant, and the will if any, from the court there.
Where no grant has issued abroad, an independent lawyer who practises or has practised there swears who is entitled to administer the estate, quoting the legislation. We translate it if needed.
What you must prove depends on whether the Irish estate is movable, immovable or both, and a grant can be limited under Order 79, rule 5(8). Your solicitor decides the route.
Applications to limit a grant, or to prove a foreign-language will, go through a Probate Officer’s order with a €50 stamped fee, supported by the translated documents.
Beneficiaries living abroad without a PPS number apply to the Department of Social Protection’s Client Identity Services, proving identity and address. Foreign documents in that application may need translating.
No affidavit of law is needed where the deceased died testate domiciled in England, Wales or Northern Ireland and the executor applies here. Those documents are in English.
Same €29.95 per page whatever the language. These are the languages we see most often from clients in Ireland.
Countries prove heirship in very different ways: notarial certificates, court orders, deeds of acceptance. Here is what the Probate Office is likely to see from the countries our clients come from, and what we translate.
Polish heirship is confirmed by a notary’s certificate of inheritance (akt poświadczenia dziedziczenia) or a court decision confirming acquisition of the estate (postanowienie o stwierdzeniu nabycia spadku). Both carry finality or registration notes, which we translate.
The German certificate of inheritance is issued by the probate court (Nachlassgericht) and names the heirs and their shares. Restrictions, such as an executor (Testamentsvollstrecker) or subsequent heirs, are noted on it, and we translate them precisely.
French heirs are identified by a notaire’s acte de notoriété, often followed by an attestation immobilière for property. The acte lists the heirs and their rights, and we translate the notarial formulas faithfully rather than paraphrasing.
Where there is no will, Spanish heirs are declared by a notarial act (acta de declaración de herederos abintestato), and the estate is then accepted and divided by deed (escritura de aceptación y adjudicación de herencia). We translate both.
A Lithuanian notary issues the certificate of the right to inherit, naming the heirs and the property covered. Separate certificates may be issued for different assets, so send every certificate issued and we translate the full set.
The Romanian certificate of inheritance is issued by a notary public after succession proceedings and lists the heirs, their shares and the assets. We translate the full certificate, including the asset schedule and the notary’s closing formula.
Upload the grant or certificate, the will if there is one, and the affidavit of law. A native-speaker legal translator keeps terminology consistent across the whole bundle, so your solicitor’s papers all use the same names. You receive signed, stamped PDFs, each with a Certificate of Accuracy and a reference number.
