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Electronic notice board – how to check if probate is underway

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The SPF list only covers land that the fund records as managed. If you're looking more broadly — an apartment, a house, or you simply want to know whether probate proceedings are underway at all for a given name — you need to look at the place where such proceedings are actually published.

Where probate proceedings are actually published

The law (§199 of the Civil Non-Contentious Proceedings Act) is clear: a ruling related to probate proceedings is published on the court's notice board, on the relevant court's website, and on the website of the Notarial Chamber of the Slovak Republic. The Notarial Central Register of Wills, where notaries record wills, is meanwhile non-public — only courts and appointed notaries have access, not the public.

Central Electronic Notice Board of the Courts (CUET)

Instead of going through dozens of individual district court websites, there's one central place: cuet.slovensko.sk. All public authorities, including courts, publish documents there — including notices and summons that would otherwise only hang on a specific court's physical notice board.

How to search it

On the CUET page, first open Rozšírené vyhľadávanie (Advanced search). Then find the field Fulltextové vyhľadávanie vo zverejnenom dokumente (Fulltext search in published document) — enter a first and last name there and the system will search documents where that name appears.

Limitation The search isn't specifically focused on probate matters — you'll find all types of court notices in it. Results need to be reviewed to find the ones that actually relate to probate proceedings.

Try it directly

On the main page, switch to the "Probate proceedings" tab — your name gets copied and CUET opens for you.

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