Probate — Golden Beach
Probate solicitors at Golden Beach
Our Sunshine Coast office is at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach QLD 4551. Fixed-fee grants of probate ($3,300) and full estate administration ($8,800), both including GST.
Grant of probate
$3,300
including GST
Full estate administration
$8,800
including GST
The Supreme Court filing fee and the cost of publishing the required notice are set by others and charged at cost. No percentage of the estate. See the full probate page for what each fee covers.
Golden Beach is a long-held-property suburb. Many of the estates we act on involve a house bought decades ago, now the largest asset in the estate and often the only reason a grant is needed at all.
Long ownership brings its own problems: a title still in two names when one owner died years ago, a will made in the 1990s naming an executor who has since died, or a family arrangement that was never documented. Those are fixable, but they are better identified at the start than at the point of sale.
Erin Wilkinson lives in Golden Beach and handles estate files locally. If it suits you, she will come to you.
Probate for Golden Beach executors
Our Sunshine Coast office is at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach, so this is the one suburb where you can genuinely walk in with the will. Erin Wilkinson lives here and handles the estate files.
Golden Beach is a long-tenure suburb: houses bought in the 1970s and 1980s, held through one death and now being dealt with on the second. That is why so many files here start with a title search that shows a name that should have come off years ago. A survivorship or earlier transmission application is dealt with in the same file rather than treated as a separate job.
The application itself is filed electronically in the Supreme Court of Queensland at Brisbane. Nothing about living at Golden Beach slows a grant down — what slows estates down is a missing original will, an out-of-date title, or a superannuation fund nobody wrote to in the first month.
- Office you can walk into
- 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach. Appointments, home visits and signing on site for elderly or unwell executors.
- Second-death estates
- Where the title still shows a spouse who died years ago, we deal with the earlier survivorship and the current grant together.
- Original wills
- Where the original sits with a Caloundra bank or a firm that has since closed, we write for its release before filing.
- Coastal titles
- Esplanade and canal-front titles carry easements, revetment obligations and council approvals we check before the estate sells.
Areas and postcodes served: 4551 Golden Beach · 4551 Pelican Waters · 4551 Bulcock Beach · 4551 Aroona · 4551 Bells Creek · 4551 Baringa
What comes up on a Golden Beach estate
Older wills and dead or unwilling executors
Where the named executor has died, renounced or cannot act, we deal with the reserve appointment or the application for letters of administration with the will annexed.
Titles never updated after an earlier death
A survivorship or transmission application from a death years ago is often needed before the current estate can sell. We deal with both in the one file.
We tell you if you do not need a grant
Assets held as joint tenants pass by survivorship, and superannuation and life insurance often sit outside the estate. If the bank's threshold covers it, we will say so rather than sell you an application.
Notice, filing and requisitions handled
Notice of intention to apply published and served on the Public Trustee, the application and executor's affidavit prepared and filed in the Supreme Court of Queensland, and any registry requisitions dealt with.
Property in the estate dealt with in-house
Transmission application to put the executor on title, then the sale or transfer itself. One firm, one file — the estate is not paying a second practice to finish the job.
Where we meet you
Our Sunshine Coast office is at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach QLD 4551 and our peninsula office at 15 Fortune Street, Scarborough QLD 4020, both by appointment. We act for executors across Golden Beach and Caloundra, Pelican Waters, Bells Creek, Aroona, Bulcock Beach, Baringa, and most of an estate file runs perfectly well by phone and email.
Who will handle it
Michael Klein
Legal Practice Director
Admitted 2003. Based in Redcliffe, Moreton Bay.
Read Michael's profile
Common questions
Can someone come to the house?
Yes. Erin is based in Golden Beach and regularly sees executors and elderly clients at home rather than asking them to travel.
How much does a grant of probate cost in Golden Beach?
Our fixed professional fee for a straightforward grant is $3,300 including GST, and full estate administration is $8,800 including GST. The Supreme Court filing fee and the cost of publishing the required notice are set by others and charged at cost. We put both figures in writing before you engage us, and the estate normally pays them.
How long does it take?
The notice must be published and served on the Public Trustee, and the application cannot be filed until at least 14 days later. Where the material is in order a grant commonly issues six to ten weeks after we start. Collecting assets and distributing takes longer again.
What if there is no will?
The application becomes one for letters of administration, and the intestacy rules decide who is entitled to apply. The steps and our fixed fee are the same; the extra work sits in identifying and evidencing the next of kin.
When can the estate be distributed?
Not within six months of the date of death without accepting real risk — a family provision application can still be brought, and an executor who has already paid the money out can be left personally carrying it. We will tell you when it is safe to distribute and what to do if a claim is foreshadowed.
Do I have to attend an office?
No. Most executors deal with us by email and phone, and documents can be signed and witnessed locally. Our offices at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach QLD 4551 and 15 Fortune Street, Scarborough QLD 4020 are available by appointment if you would rather sit down with someone.
Related pages and guides
- Wills, estates and elder law
- Estate disputes and family provision claims
- Do I need probate in Queensland?
- Dying without a will in Queensland
- What an executor does when the estate is contested
Probate in nearby areas
Send us the will and we will tell you what is needed
Call 0488 340 853 or send the will and a list of assets through. We will confirm whether a grant is required and give you the fee in writing.