Wills, Trusts and Probate

Our experienced, pragmatic and sympathetic team of qualified lawyers can help you arrange your affairs and plan effectively for the future.

Start making your Will online: Online Will Questionnaire (PDF Form) >

One of the most important things anyone can do is to secure the future for the ones they care about. We can’t know what will happen to us but writing a will and getting sensible advice on UK inheritance tax laws and about how best to pass on assets is an essential part of that planning process.

Our approach will always be tailored to your needs, explore the following links to see what we can offer you:

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:

Setting up a will or updating an existing will

What is the cost of a will?

The cost of making a Will with us is broken down as follows:

A Will Preparation fee is £125+ VAT.

Single Will = £250+ VAT (tailored Meeting  + Preparation Fee).
Couples Will  = £375+ VAT (tailored Meeting + Preparation Fee).

Our fees for making a Will include storage.

More complex Wills incorporating multiple gifts, Trusts or Tax planning can cost more depending on the type of trust. As a guide for making a Will and Trust together you will be looking at costs in excess of £800.

Setting up a Trust?

Probate or Court of Protection advice

Disputing a will / disputing inheritance?

How much will it cost to challenge a will?

Removing an executor from a will – can you / should you?

If you think you may have a claim because you have not been included in a will or not sufficiently included, click here.

Whether you are an individual beneficiary, a trustee, an executor or an administrator, whether you are a claimant or defendant, we have experience in acting for you. Our Dispute Resolution Team can help you.

Quick links

Make a will online

If you would like to start the process of making a will. Fill in our will questionnaire and submit the form by email to our specialist team. We can then create a will tailored for you from the details you provide. 

STEP Members

Anthony Tahourdin, Minnar Badenhorst, and Sonia Dhesi are members of STEP.

When you choose to use a STEP member you are working with a professional advisor who conducts their business in an open and transparent manner and behaves with integrity.

 

Unfairly left out of a Will?

Under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, a person may have a valid claim against an estate if they have been left out of a will. This note provides a...

Making a cheap Will is a bad idea!

We all like a bargain, don’t we? It is quite common to see Wills being advertised “on the cheap”, at the price of an average meal down the pub. However, Will writing companies...

The pros and cons of moving the tax year end

The last couple of reports from the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) that this writer has read have been bad for his blood pressure, they seemed designed to remove most of the...

Private Wealth – I’ve won big, but what happens next?

We all fantasise about it, some of us are lucky enough to have won a few pounds here and there, but what actually happens if you win the jackpot on the lottery. Like most of us,...

Should a Will be made public after I die?

After reading that Prince Phillip’s Will is to be kept secret for 90 years. I suspect it is a question that many people have been asking. The strict legal answer is that under...

Raising tax and paying social care fees

There is a lot of politics on which I could comment but in the spirit of political neutrality I will try to avoid that and just comment as objectively as possible. Whatever you...

The Probate Application Process must change

I have been a solicitor specialising in Inheritance tax and Probate work for over 40 years, however in the last two years we have seen a deterioration in the service offered by...

Law Commission review of the law of Wills

The Law Commission is a body that reviews law in this country and puts forward recommendations for change. Currently it has two ongoing projects that touch on the work of the...

Commonwealth Resealing – Is my Will legal in the UK?

In order to prove an overseas Will in the UK it is generally necessary to prove that the Will complies with the internal law of the country in which the Will was made and or of...

Should I get married for tax reasons?

Traditionally the emphatic answer to this question was NO. But in recent years we have seen the increase in the number of long-term relationships where there is no marriage or...

Latest news & insights

Why should you make a Will?

Why should you make a Will?

When the time arrives, do you know how much difference having a Will in place can make to your loved ones? And yet, most adults in this country have not made a Will.

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