The death of a relative or close friend can often be a stressful and emotional time. Our team can guide you through the steps that need to be taken following death. We offer a personal and professional service, and will avoid and/or…
A Lasting Power of Attorney (often shortened to LPA) allows you to appoint one or more persons (known as your attorneys) to help you make decisions or to make decisions on your behalf. Your attorney should be someone you trust,…
Where an individual no longer has capacity to make their own decisions this can cause problems for their family and friends, not least due to the fact that they will not be able to have a Will drawn up on…
Our team has a great deal of expertise in dealing with all issues relating to Wills, probate and LPA’s. We offer both flexible pricing and fixed fees whenever possible, and have been accredited by the Law Society with Wills & Inheritance Quality scheme membership.…
Deeds of Variation pay for themselves, often, thousands of times over and are an effective tax saving tool. Deeds of Variation allow a person to pass some or all of an inheritance they have received on to someone else, and…
Our specialist solicitors can help you protect and manage your assets both in life and in death. Trusts are a means of managing wealth – financial investments, property or businesses – for you, your family or anyone else you would…
Assets which are merely held in someone else’s name are held on a “bare trust”. A bare trust only exists where the beneficiary has full beneficial ownership of the trust property and has an immediate absolute right to the trust…
A Discretionary Trust is a legal arrangement you can set up in your Will or whilst you are alive, where you arrange for your estate or a proportion of your estate assets to be looked after by your trustees for…
Personal injury trusts are a lawful method of ringfencing your compensation if you or others in your close family either claim, or will need to claim in the future, means tested benefits or require local authority care. The law allows…
An “18 to 25” trust is identical to a Bereaved Minors’ Trust except that the beneficiary must become entitled to the trust property by the age of 25 at the latest, rather than 18. Between the ages of 18 to…