My father expired leaving behind two sons. He had made a will which is registered which mentioned land and liquid assets. Now we have taken the will for probate for land (House) only and court has passed the permission for will execution for land only (as nothing has been mentioned for liquid assets in the claim). The name transfer for the land has been completed. Now for the liquid assets we approached bank with the copy of the will. The Manager asked us to bring probate for the will. Now on approaching a lawyer, he said that we have to take probate of the will again for liquid assets and that too in civil court. I said, we have taken probate of the will while inheriting the land (house) and shown him the copy of courts advice. He said, that was case regarding the land which had been dealt with by revenue department tahasil. Now this is the case of liquid assets and will be dealt by civil court, so you have to take probate again. Is he right? Secondly, while taking probate of the will regarding liquid assets, we have to pay 10% of the claim amount as stamp duty. Is he right? What is the stamp duty in such cases in Chhattisgarh? Is there any other way to save this stamp duty amount as the amount (to be claimed) is already tax paid amount. Your advice pl.
