Form P14 (BC): Supplemental Affidavit of Assets and Liabilities, Explained

What it is: Form P14 — the Supplemental Affidavit of Assets and Liabilities — is the "we found something else" form. When you applied for probate, you swore a list of everything the person owned and owed (Form P10). Estates rarely hold still after that: a statement arrives for an account nobody mentioned, an appraisal comes back different from your careful estimate, a refund shows up payable to the estate. Form P14 is how you update the court's record — and it isn't optional. The court rules say that once you learn the original list was incomplete or incorrect, you must file the correction promptly (Supreme Court Civil Rules, Rule 25-3(9)).

You've actually already promised to do this: the P10 affidavit you swore contains an undertaking to file a supplemental affidavit and pay any extra probate fee if anything new turns up. The P14 is you keeping that promise.

Who it's for: executors and administrators of estates where the deceased lived in BC — which is most estates handled here, and means your original affidavit was a P10. If the deceased lived outside BC and you filed Form P11 instead, your supplemental form is Form P15. (Correcting a resealed foreign grant uses Form P26.) Same job in every case: keep the court's picture of the estate accurate.

When you need it — real examples:

• A bank statement arrives for an account you didn't know existed, or the bank finds a second GIC during the transfer.
• A life-insurance policy or a refund turns out to be payable to the estate rather than to a named person.
• The appraisal on the house or a collection comes back meaningfully different from the estimate you filed.
• You discover a debt — a tax balance, a private loan — that wasn't in the original list.
• You simply spot an error: a mistyped value, a missed vehicle, a forgotten utility deposit.

It works in both directions: newly found liabilities get corrected the same way as assets, and so do values that turn out to be wrong.

What it costs: the probate fee is recalculated on the corrected estate value, and you pay the difference (Probate Fee Act, s. 2(4)). The tiers are the same ones your original filing used: nothing on the first $25,000 of estate value, $6 per $1,000 from $25,000 to $50,000 (about 0.6%), and $14 per $1,000 above $50,000 (about 1.4%). So a newly discovered $20,000 account in an estate already worth more than $50,000 means about $280 more. If the whole estate is still worth $25,000 or less, there's no fee — but the correction still gets filed. (Figures come from the Probate Fee Act; confirm current numbers with the registry before you pay.)

How to actually do it:

1. Get the current form from the BC government's official probate forms page — it's listed as "Supplemental affidavit of assets and liabilities for domiciled estate grant" (Form P14): Supreme Court probate forms.
2. Find your probate file number. It's stamped on your filed Submission for Estate Grant (Form P2) and printed on the grant itself. A P14 is filed into that existing court file — it's not a new application.
3. List what changed. Describe each newly discovered asset or liability, or each corrected value, using the value at the date of death — that's the number the law counts, not what the asset is worth today.
4. Swear or affirm it before a lawyer, notary public, or commissioner for taking affidavits — the same way you swore your original affidavit. A notary can usually do this in one short, inexpensive appointment.
5. File it at the same probate registry where your application went in — in person or by mail (call ahead and ask which the registry prefers), quoting your file number — and pay any additional probate fee the registry calculates from your updated totals.
6. Keep the stamped copy with the estate records and tell the beneficiaries what you found. Your final accounting has to match the court record, and a surprise explained now is far easier than a discrepancy discovered at distribution time.

If you do nothing: the rule says "must, promptly" — and you swore an affidavit promising exactly this. An executor who knowingly leaves the court record wrong is inviting the two things the probate process exists to prevent: beneficiaries who feel misled, and an accounting that doesn't add up when it's time for releases and final records. Unpaid probate fees on undisclosed value remain owing by the estate, and the gap tends to surface at the worst possible moment. If you're unsure whether something you've found actually needs a P14, a quick call to a probate lawyer settles it — here's how to think about when a lawyer is worth it.

Common mistakes: waiting to file until you're sure you've found "everything" (file promptly — you can file another P14 later if more surfaces); valuing things at today's prices instead of the date of death; forgetting that debts and corrections count, not just shiny new assets; and reaching for a P14 when the estate was handled as non-domiciled — that one takes Form P15.

Where to get it: the official current version is on the BC government probate forms page. Related reading: how the original P10 affidavit works and what probate actually costs in BC. More plain-language answers: BC executor questions.

Foxglove is a guide, not a law firm. General information, not legal advice; forms and rules change — confirm current requirements with the Supreme Court of BC, the official BC government forms page, or a qualified BC professional. Find vetted BC help →