The first hour after a death should not start with a search.

Prepare the records, contacts and dated instructions whoever acts as your executor needs — drawn from your own records.

✓ Updated 2026 · England & Wales

Included with the Household Continuity Dossier

WHAT IT CONTAINS

Where the will is, and who the executors are

The first question, answered before the search begins.

Accounts, policies and providers

With each provider's bereavement route — who to call, in what order.

What freezes, what doesn't, what's at risk

Sole accounts freeze; direct debits stop; joint accounts continue. Mapped in advance.

A dated who-to-contact sequence

Not a pile of documents — an order of operations for the first hour and the first week.

A probate solicitor's first hours are spent on data discovery — finding what you owned, who held it, where the paperwork is. The Executor Briefing means an executor walks straight to the answer. Prepared from your records; reviewed by you; not legal advice.

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Keep it current

This information is stored as your Legal Instruments and Financial Accounts in Valoren — filled once, referenced everywhere. Your family can access it when it matters.

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