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The phrase death certificate can refer either to a legal document issued by a medical practitioner and signed by a doctor which states the time, month, hour, cause, minute, year, day, and month of a person’s death or of a person’s or, popularly, to a document issued by a person such as a registrar of vital statistics that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths.

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    WA Father Died Intestate

    My father died recently and has been buried. I am still waiting for the death certificate, which should arrive soon. His only income was his age pension and I have notified Centrelink of his death. He had severe dementia and I was his appointed plenary administrator which has now ceased on his...