Service · INHERITANCE & ESTATES

Inheritance Documents Remotely

A Ukrainian inheritance case runs on documents, and all of them can be gathered while you remain in Canada: the death certificate, your relationship evidence, asset records, and any court papers, each apostilled or consular-certified in the right country and translated into Ukrainian. LexRoota builds the document set against the notary's actual file, replacing records that no longer match current names and spellings. Where retrieval in Ukraine is needed, the Kyiv desk handles it under your power of attorney.

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This service is for you if…

The Ukrainian notary listed documents you must supply from Canada
Your relationship documents carry old names, spellings, or gaps
The death certificate or asset records exist only in Ukraine
Several heirs abroad each need their document sets synchronized

What LexRoota coordinates

The notary's document list obtained for your specific case

Canadian-side documents: notarization plus apostille, or the consular route where it applies

Ukrainian-side retrieval: death certificate, old civil records, asset documents

Name-chain reconciliation across Canadian and Ukrainian records

Certified translation into Ukrainian, bound as the notary requires

Multi-heir coordination so all abroad-side sets meet the same standard

Typical route

Inheritance Documents Remotely

Day 1–3

Case document map

We obtain the notary's exact list and map each item to its source country and certification route.

Assessment

Week 1–3

Both sides in parallel

Canadian documents are notarized and apostilled; Ukrainian retrievals run at the same time through the Kyiv desk.

Canada + Ukraine

Week 3–4

Translation and binding

The full set passes certified translation and binding in the form the notary accepts.

Week 4–5

Filing

Documents reach the notary through your representative; any deficiency notes get answered from the same file.

Filed

Documents typically required

Death certificate — Canadian-issued (apostilled) or Ukrainian (retrieved)

Your birth, marriage, or name-change certificates proving the relationship

The deceased's details as they appear in Ukrainian records

Asset documents or information for the registry pulls

POA for retrieval and filing actions in Ukraine

The notary's written request list for the case

What the route depends on

Which documents already exist and which must be retrieved or re-issued
Name chains: how many documents bridge your current and past surnames
Number of heirs preparing parallel sets
The notary's form requirements for translation and binding

What can slow or block this

Relationship chains broken by a name change never documented in either country
Civil records from districts whose archives moved, requiring a search leg
A death certificate issued abroad that needs apostille in that country first
One heir's incomplete set holding up the certificate for everyone

TIMING

A typical document set completes in 3–6 weeks; archive searches and multi-country chains extend the calendar, which the case map states up front.

FEES

Fixed coordination fee quoted after the document map; government, archive, apostille, translation, and courier fees are listed as separate third-party costs.

WHO ELSE IS INVOLVED

Ukrainian notary holding the case · Canadian notary plus ODS/JLAC or a Ukrainian consulate · Ukrainian civil registries and archives · Certified translator · Courier service, both directions

Common questions

The notary asked for a document I have never heard of. Where does it come from?

Send us the list. Each item maps to an issuer — a registry, an archive, a court — and we tell you which country it comes from, which certification route it takes, and what it costs before anything is ordered.

My Canadian documents still show my previous surname. Is that a problem?

It is a solvable chain, not a dead end. We assemble the bridging records — marriage certificate, name-change document — apostilled and translated, so the notary reads one continuous identity.

Can the death certificate be re-issued if the family lost it?

Yes. Ukrainian death certificates are re-issued by the civil registry or retrieved from archives, and we handle the request under your POA. Abroad-issued certificates get replaced through that country's registry.

Do all heirs have to send original documents to one place?

Each heir's set files through their own route into the same case. We synchronize the form requirements so no heir's package bounces and stalls the shared certificate.