Estate inventory and estate inventory deed

Identifying the parties to the estate

If a customer of ours passes away, we must find out who the parties to their estate are before we can release their funds. We use the estate inventory deed and other documents on the estate’s state of affairs (such as the will) to identify the parties to the estate. The length of time this takes may vary. We will contact you for further information if it remains unclear who the parties are based on the documents submitted.

The Digital and Population Data Services Agency can confirm upon request that the correct persons have been named as the parties to the estate in the estate inventory deed. In some cases, requesting this confirmation may make it easier for you to manage the estate’s affairs. 

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Once we have established the parties to the estate, we will notify the estate administrator of this via SMS, Omaposti or by post. The parties to the estate can then collectively decide what to do with the assets in the estate’s accounts, book-entry account or fund portfolio with Nordea. They will also be able to transfer equities and fund units to themselves.

Read more about selling and transferring equities or fund units

How to report the assets and debts of the estate

An estate inventory is conducted to report the assets and debts of the estate and to identify the heirs and beneficiaries for the purposes of estate distribution and inheritance taxation. An estate inventory deed of the deceased’s assets and debts must be drawn up within three months of the death.

The values of Finnish fund units in the estate distribution agreement are rounded to four decimals.

Any assets left to the heirs or beneficiaries are subject to tax. For more information about drawing up an estate inventory deed, please visit the Tax Administration’s websiteOpens new window.

We will automatically send information about the deceased’s accounts and loans with Nordea to their last known address within two weeks. The balance statements can’t be sent to an address in a care home.

Delivery of the estate inventory deed to Nordea

If a customer of ours passes away, we must find out who the parties to their estate are before we can release their funds. We use the estate inventory deed and its appendices to identify the parties to the estate.

If the Digital and Population Data Services Agency has not certified the parties to the estate, you may need to provide us with additional documents so that we can identify the parties.

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The length of time this takes varies from one case to another. We will contact you if we need any additional information from you. Once the details of the estate inventory deed have been recorded, we will notify the estate administrator of this. 

Please send us a report on the deceased’s family relationships, the estate inventory deed and its appendices as well as the deed of distribution digitally at nordea.fi/omaposti. If you are a Nordea customer, you can send us these documents in Nordea Mobile or Netbank. Log in to Nordea Mobile or Netbank and select Help > Send documents > Estate documents.

Alternatively, you can send copies of the documents by post to the address below. Remember to include the name, phone number and address of a contact person.

Nordea Bank Abp
Operations Finland / Estates
5001230-2101
00006 VASTAUSLÄHETYS

You will also need to submit a copy of the estate inventory deed and its appendices to the Tax Administration within one month of the estate inventory proceedings. For more information, visit the Tax Administration’s websiteOpens new window.

The estate’s bills 

You can pay the estate’s bills through Nordea Omaposti or by sending them to us in a payment service envelope for estates. 

Read more about paying the estate’s bills