Probate — Pelican Waters
Probate solicitors at Pelican Waters
Executor of a Pelican Waters estate? A grant of probate for $3,300 including GST, or the full administration handled for $8,800. Our office is minutes away at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach QLD 4551.
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.
Pelican Waters estates tend to carry more than a house. A canal-front or golf-course home, an investment unit, sometimes a family trust or a self-managed super fund, and a share portfolio that has been held for decades.
Structures change the work rather than the fee. A trust is not an estate asset; what passes is control of it, and that comes from the deed. Superannuation in a self-managed fund is governed by the trustee and the nomination, not the will. We identify all of that in the first fortnight so the executor is not distributing on a wrong assumption.
Canal titles carry their own detail — revetment walls, easements and community title obligations — which matter when the executor comes to sell.
Probate for Pelican Waters executors
We are a few minutes away at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach, so Pelican Waters executors can drop the original will in rather than posting it. The application itself is filed electronically in the Supreme Court of Queensland at Brisbane.
The recurring feature of estates here is structure: a trust, a company, an SMSF or a second property held with someone else. Each has its own succession rule, and none of them follows the will by default. Sorting that out early is what keeps the administration on the fixed fee.
Where the estate includes a canal-front home, we handle the transmission application and the sale in the same file, including the revetment and easement checks a buyer's solicitor will raise.
- Office nearby
- 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach — a few minutes from Pelican Waters for signing and document handover.
- Structures checked
- Trust deeds, company constitutions and SMSF deeds read before distribution.
- Waterfront titles
- Revetment obligations, easements and community title interests dealt with on the estate sale.
- Fixed fee
- $3,300 for a grant and $8,800 for full administration — not a percentage of the estate.
Areas and postcodes served: 4551 Pelican Waters · 4551 Bells Creek · 4551 Golden Beach · 4551 Aroona
What comes up on a Pelican Waters estate
Trusts, companies and SMSFs in the estate
Deeds and constitutions read, appointor and trustee succession worked out, and the estate's actual entitlement identified before anything is distributed.
Canal and waterfront property
Transmission to the executor, then the sale, with revetment and easement obligations checked in the same 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 Pelican Waters and Golden Beach, Caloundra, Bells Creek, Aroona, Baringa, Little Mountain, 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
The deceased controlled a family trust — is it part of the estate?
Generally not. The trust's assets belong to the trust, and what passes is control: the appointor and trustee roles, governed by the deed and sometimes by the will if the deed allows it. It needs to be read before the estate assumes anything.
How much does a grant of probate cost in Pelican Waters?
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.