Will Solicitors
Are you looking to make a Will or perhaps review and update your Will? Our Private Wealth team has specialists on hand to help you.
Our experienced, pragmatic and sympathetic team of lawyers can help you arrange your personal affairs and plan effectively for the future.
Preparing a Will
Preparing a Will is often one of those tasks that gets forgotten or overlooked until it is too late. However, there comes a time when you want to ensure that your personal affairs are in order.
One of the most important elements of your Will is to ensure the security and peace of mind for those you care about. It is impossible to predict our future but when preparing a Will, it is essential to obtain up to date advice on the current Inheritance Tax position and how best to structure your Will in order to carry out your wishes in the most tax efficient way.
Our Private Wealth & Inheritance team are experts in the preparation of Wills and will ensure that your new Will is suitable for your circumstances.
Do you need solicitor to prepare your Will?
We draft Wills that are bespoke to you. Unlike some providers, we will not provide a cheap headline price and make several additions in cost once we have received your information. Our Wills are tailored to you and your family and here we outline what you can expect from us
- A Will bespoke to you and your family
- A bespoke review of inheritance tax position, including a meeting or call to discuss basic advice on possible actions to mitigate tax
- We will gather information about your family and the make-up of your estate to enable us to advise on whether or not Inheritance is an issue.
- We will importantly look at potential pitfalls with your proposals
- We find out your wishes and assess your attitude to certain things, e.g. the age in which children should inherit.
- We explore such things as what provisions should be made if a major beneficiary dies prematurely or at the same time as you.
- We then draft a Will which is sent to you along with a detailed commentary designed to ensure that you understand everything in the Will.
- We then store your Will free of charge.
What is the cost of a Will?
The cost of making a basic Will (prices inclusive of VAT) is broken down as follows:
Single Will = £570 Inc VAT
Mirror Will = £780 Inc VAT
These fees include an initial meeting or call of up to one hour in order to discuss your personal circumstances and your wishes. The charge for the initial meeting is £360 including VAT.
More complex Wills incorporating multiple gifts, Trusts or Tax planning can cost more depending on the type of Trust. Depending on the complexity of your Will, our costs start at £810 including VAT per Will (in addition to the initial meeting fee). We will be able to assess the overall costs of your Will at our initial meeting.
Our fees for making a Will include storage.
Start making your Will online
If you would like to know how to make a Will, start making a Will online, fill in your details and submit our online questionnaire and we can begin to tailor your will specific to your needs:
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Making a Will FAQ’s
Including Digital Assets in a Will?
Do you have countless logins or passwords to vital information that would be useful to include as part of your Will?
What is a Living Will?
- Whether you would like to be cared for in a hospice or at home;
- How your medical treatment might be affected by your beliefs; and
- Refusal of treatment the you would not wish to receive, such as CPR or life support
When Someone Dies Without a Will
When someone dies without leaving a valid Will, their assets (the Estate) must be shared out according to certain rules. These are called the Rules of Intestacy.
Our Intestacy Rules Flowchart will help you to understand what will happen to your assets if you die without having a valid Will.
Challenging a Will or Inheritance
Whether you are an individual beneficiary, a Trustee, an Executor or an Administrator, our Dispute Resolution team can advise you.
Removing a Personal Representative (Executor or Administrator) from their Position
Being an Executor is an important role both for ensuring that the wishes of the deceasedare carried out but also for ensuring that all the administration associated with dealing with someone’s Estate is correctly managed. It is a position that is often given to close family and friends who may lack the expertise to deal with the Estate sufficiently.
For further information on removing an Executor from their position, download our pdf ‘Removing an executor from a will – can you / should you?‘.
Whether you are an individual beneficiary, a Trustee, an Executor or an Administrator, our Dispute Resolution team can advise you.
Excluded from a Will
If you feel that you have not been adequately provided for in a Will or under the Rules of Intestacy, our Dispute Resolution team can assist. We provide a brief explanation of who may claim and on what basis when they have been excluded from a Will in our article ‘Unfairly left out of a Will?‘.
What Does it Cost to Challenge a Will?
In most cases where a dispute over a Will occurs (typically between family members), it is best to seek to resolve any disputes amicably. Where this is not possible then Court action may be the only alternative, but it comes at a cost both personally and financially.
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