Can you clear a deceased estate before probate in Bendigo?

Whether a deceased estate can be cleared before probate in Bendigo depends on the estate itself — it's a question for the solicitor administering it, not for us, because the right answer turns on the will, the beneficiaries and whether anything is contested. Some estates are cleared before a grant of probate, some wait until it's finalised, and the honest advice is that assuming instead of asking is the risky part: the cost of a phone call to the solicitor is nothing next to the cost of getting it wrong personally as an executor. What we do is fit around whatever the solicitor advises rather than push a timeline. We take instructions from the executor or the solicitor acting for the estate, put the scope in writing so nothing is ambiguous later, and if timing is still unsettled we can start with a partial clearance — securing valuables, documents and anything sentimental first — rather than waiting on an all-or-nothing removal. If probate ends up taking longer than expected, we simply reschedule. Nothing about this work benefits from being rushed, and a clearance booked before the authority is properly settled tends to create more problems than it solves.