I just received an email regarding what needs to be done should someone in your family die.
 
You never really think about this much when alive, so a suggestion would be to create a place of safekeeping where you could keep as much of the information pertaining to the following list as possible...thereby making things happen much smoother for your dependants should you die:
 
DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION REQUIRED BY AN EXECUTOR
(with thanks to Estate Planning Essentials newsletter of the 7^th of April 2009- Tiny Carroll and Daleen Harris).
 

1	Original Death Certificate and BI- 1663 Notification of Death Form
2	Identity Documents of deceased
3	Name, address of employer and salary number of deceased
4	Details of Pension Fund
5	Name, address and reference number of Medical Aid Society
6	Income tax details (including details of accountants)
7.a	Name, address and telephone number of deceased's usual doctor
7.b	Name, telephone number and case numbers from Police Station should the deceased have died of unnatural causes (e.g. motor Vehicle accident, suicide,etc.)
8	Partnership agreement and name, address of partners
9.a	Particulars of Close Corporation or Business
9.b	Name and number of Auditor/ Accounting Officer
10	Details of divorced and predeceased spouses
11	Ante nuptial contracts, divorce agreements and maintenance agreements
12.a	Title deed in respectof fixed property
12.b	Rates and taxes account and / or details of Body Corporate or the Managing Agents
13	Original registration certificates in respect of motor vehicles
14	Firearms - to be handed to the Executor for safekeeping
15	Certificates/ details in respect of timeshare
16	Share Certificates (stock exchange or private companies)
17	Hire and letting contracts
18	Cheque books, investment statements, credit cards, ATM cards
19	Insurance Policies - whether payable to the estate or to a third party
20	Details of short term insurance (motor vehicle, contents of house, etc.)
21	Accounts owing by the deceased
22	Copies of Identity Documents of beneficiaries and marriage details
23	Copies of birth certificates if minor beneficiaries

 
 Kenny Williamson
www.businessowner-cover.com