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- Examination of impediments to marriage
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- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Permit to buy or sell a dwelling
- Permit for purchase or sale of real estate
- Permit for the partition or separation of property and the division of inheritance
- Renunciation of inheritance, for the surrender of one’s share of an inheritance or an agreement on the joint administration of an estate
- Engaging in trade or the establishment of a company
- Property management plan
- Pledging of property and for borrowing and lending
- Leasing or investing a client’s property
- Limited account or the management of the earnings
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
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- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
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- Registration of a gift notification
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- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
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- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
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- Legalisation of foreign documents
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Report on family relationships
A report on family relationships is most commonly needed for estate inventories so that the heirs of the deceased can be determined. You can order a report on family relationships, for example, if you are the person drawing up the deeds of estate inventory, a stakeholder of the estate, a beneficiary in the will or some other person who needs the report for an accepted purpose.
You can order a report on the family relationships of a person from the Digital and Population Data Services
Agency for the time period the person has been recorded in the population register or has been a member of a registered religious community. You can also order a report on family relationships for a time period starting after 1 October 1999 for a person who has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox church.
If the person has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox church all their life, a report on family relationships should be ordered from that church. If the person was a member of an Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox parish before 1 October 1999, you must always order the report on family relationships from the parish in question for a time period preceding that date.
You will need a report on the family relationships of the deceased person from the age of 15 until the date of death, for example, for an estate declaration. In some cases, you may also need a report on the family relationships of the spouses, the previously deceased heirs and the persons who have given up their right to the inheritance to be able to determine the heirs.
In addition to the personal data, transfers between parishes and the population register, moving abroad and back to Finland, and the details of the spouses and children will be included in the report on family relationships. In some cases, the parents’ details are also recorded in the report on family relationships.
Checklist before using the service
Be prepared to provide the following information when you order the report:
- the name and personal identity code/date of birth of the person for whom you order the report
- the date of death (if the person is deceased)
- the purpose of the report (for example, for an estate inventory)
- if the purpose is an estate inventory, whose estate is it?
- your contact details
- invoicing details
Do the following
Fill in and send the form in the electronic service. Sending the electronic form requires strong identification.
You can also order a report on family relationships by phone or email.
Our contact details
Please contact us by email or telephone. If your message contains personal or other confidential information, remember to use secure email. Choose the address [email protected] as the recipient.
Telephone service
Telephone service from Monday to Friday 9-15
Telephone number +358 295 536 230
Service locations
Price
9 euros (the report on family relationships contains information only from the Population Information System)
45 euros (the report on family relationships contains information from population registers and the Population Information System)
The billing surcharge is 7 euros
Frequently asked questions
No, you don’t, if the information that you are alive is visible in the report on family relationships.
You can also use the report on family relationships in other situations related to managing the estate’s matters.
Previously obtained reports on family relationships can be used in other estate inventories later. The information on the deceased person in the report on family relationships does not become outdated.
However, you need to obtain life certificates for the stakeholders of the estate for the estate inventory.
When the Population Information System was established at the beginning of the 1970’s, the following restrictions applied when family details were recorded in the register:
- children who were minors on 1 October 1973 were recorded in their parent’s details
- parents of children who were minors were recorded in the children’s details
The parent/children relationships may therefore be missing for individuals who were born before 1954. In older population register material, the children have not always been entered in the parent’s details if the child has been a member of a parish together with one of the parents. Because the report on family relationships is drawn up from the age of 15, the missing children will be found in the report issued by the parish.
If the person has been a member of the Evangelical Lutheran or Orthodox church all their life, there is no need to order a separate report on family relationships from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. The report on family relationships needs to cover the time period between the age of 15 and the person’s death.
- Individuals
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Moving to Finland
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