{"id":118220,"date":"2025-11-04T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:39:11","slug":"cost-of-probate-records-to-become-ten-times-more-expensive-in-huge-government-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118220\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of probate records to become ten times more expensive in huge Government price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of ordering copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/tutorials\/where-are-wills-kept\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">probate records<\/a> will increase from \u00a31.50 to \u00a316 from Monday 17 November.<\/p>\n<p>The government laid out the changes online in Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 1126.<\/p>\n<p>The civil Court of Probate for England and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/tutorials\/welsh-family-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wales<\/a> was established in 1858. Probate records from that date to the present are available to download on the UK government\u2019s Find a Will website.<\/p>\n<p>They are an important record for allowing family history researchers to view their ancestor\u2019s wills.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of probate records was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com\/news\/government-cuts-probate-record-cost-to-1-50-for-next-12-months\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cut<\/a> from \u00a310 to \u00a31.50 in 2019 and has remained at that low price since then.<\/p>\n<p>Family historians are urged to download any records they may need before 17 November.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Williams, editor of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, said: \u201cAs a family history magazine, we have always advised our readers to buy wills, but now that they are going up to \u00a316, it will be a much harder decision to make. It is a huge disappointment that the government has increased the pricing by ten-fold. I would urge our readers to order any post-1858 wills that relate to their family before the price rise takes effect.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cost of ordering copies of probate records will increase from \u00a31.50 to \u00a316 from Monday 17 November.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-118220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}