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Certified Will and Probate Document Translation

eVerbary translates your will and probate document into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

A civil-law will is a different instrument

Most of the world makes wills before a notary, who drafts the instrument, keeps the original in a protocol and issues certified copies — and many countries maintain a central register of wills that must be searched before an estate can proceed. That search certificate is itself a document, and US practitioners frequently do not know to ask for it.

Civil-law systems also impose forced heirship: a fixed share (legítima, Pflichtteil, réserve héréditaire) reserved to certain heirs regardless of what the will says. We translate the terms as written rather than converting them into US concepts that carry no such rule.

What an estate file usually contains

An estate with foreign assets or foreign heirs generates a set rather than a document:

• The will itself, as a notarial copy or a holographic original
• A certificate from the central register of wills
• The death certificate
• A declaration of heirs, or a court or notarial succession decree
• Birth and marriage certificates proving the relationships
• Property titles and bank statements evidencing the assets
• Tax clearance documents for the estate

Relationships are proved by civil records, not by the will

The documents that actually decide who inherits are usually the civil records establishing the family, and that is where translation accuracy is most consequential: two surnames dropped to one, a patronymic treated as a middle name, a gendered surname read as a different family name — any of those breaks the chain from the deceased to the heir.

We reproduce names exactly as each document gives them and note genuine differences between documents rather than resolving them silently, because an estate is precisely where an unexplained variation becomes a dispute.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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