How to renounce your right to be estate trustee without a will — and autofill Form 74.18 with my-id.ca
Renounce your right to be estate trustee without a will without retyping your details
If you have a prior right to be appointed estate trustee where there is no will but someone else will apply, your renunciation repeats your name, address, and relationship to the deceased. This guide is an example of storing them once in my-id.ca.
Official form and source
Start from the official source and always use the current version — form numbers and links can change:
- Service page: Apply for probate of an estate — ontario.ca
- Form (Central Forms Repository): FORM 74-18 Courts of Justice Act. Renunciation of Prior Right to a Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee Without a Will — rcp-74-18
What this form is about
Form 74.18 is a renunciation by a person with a prior right to a certificate appointing them estate trustee without a will. It lets another eligible person apply instead.
Before you start: what to gather
- Your full legal name and current address.
- Your relationship to the deceased.
- The applicant's name who will seek appointment.
- The deceased's name and date of death.
Confirm the current process on ontario.ca.
How my-id.ca makes it faster
- Save it once. Store your name, address, and contact details in your my-id.ca profile.
- Keep documents ready. Upload supporting documents to my-id.ca Files so you are not searching at form time.
- Autofill the form. Use the my-id.ca Chrome extension on a web form, or fill a PDF from your saved profile inside my-id.ca.
- Review and submit yourself through the official channel.
Why do it in my-id.ca
Related Ontario forms repeat the same personal details. Captured once in my-id.ca — stored in Canada, with AI on its own servers — every form starts mostly complete.
Frequently asked questions
- When do I renounce on Form 74.18?
- When you have a prior right to be estate trustee in an intestate estate but want another person to apply instead.
- How does my-id.ca help?
- It autofills your name and address so you can sign the renunciation quickly.
- Does my-id.ca submit the renunciation?
- No. my-id.ca autofills your information; the applicant files it with the estate application.
Fill it once. Reuse it everywhere.
Save your information in my-id.ca once, then autofill this form and the next one — web forms with the Chrome extension, PDFs right in the app. Your data is stored in Canada and AI runs on my-id.ca's own servers, never sent to third-party AI providers.