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We have wide ranging experience in preparing wills from the simplest to the most complex.
Every detail is personally tailored to suit your needs.
We offer specialist advice for those difficult situations such as second marriages and give advice on inheritance tax, drawing on specialist advice from other experts.
We also deal with the administration of estates on death. We help you, in a friendly and sympathetic way, to cope with the necessary procedures including:
We also set up and administer family trusts.
For added peace of mind we will store your will without charge.
The cost of a simple single will is £100.00 plus vat and for a pair of mirror wills £150.00 plus vat.
Prime Minister David Cameron is to double the funding for research into dementia to £66m by 2015.
It’s estimated that dementia affects about 800,000 people in the UK.
Mr Cameron said: “One of the greatest challenges of our time is what I’d call the quiet crisis, one that steals lives and tears at the hearts of families, but that relative to its impact is hardly acknowledged. Read the rest of this entry »
Will writing and estate administration services are to face strict regulation to protect consumers from sloppy and fraudulent practitioners.
The move comes after a long investigation by the Legal Services Board (LSB) – the body that oversees the regulation of legal services. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week I was asked by a relative of an elderly client to go to Salisbury hospital to see my client about making a Lasting Power of Attorney. I arrived with a retired social worker who I had asked to act as an independent person who could verify that my Client fully understood the nature of the document she was being asked to sign, and sign the appropriate certificate. Read the rest of this entry »
The Wills Act 1837. 175 years ago Parliament passed the Wills Act which still dictates whether a Will is valid today. When you consider the number of Acts of Parliament which have been added to the statute book since then, it is perhaps surprising that the development of the law relating to Wills has largely been left to the Judges by way of case law rather than Members of Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »
