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Writing a will does not have to be costly or time consuming. A professionally drafted will can offer financial safety and security to your loved ones, ensuring that your wishes are carried out after your death. It can also save a great deal of expense – significantly minimising the possibility of future disputes and achieving considerable savings in Inheritance Tax.

Our specialist team of Wills and Probate lawyers provide impartial and independent advice covering a range of services including:

  • Court of Protection
  • Estates
  • Intestacy
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney
  • Trusts

If you’re looking for legal advice on any aspect of making, amending or challenging a will, take a look at some of the questions our lawyers have already answered to help you along the way.

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Wills and Probate Questions

My elderly aunt won’t make a will. Instead she has put her two bank accounts into both our names. She has been pestered for money by another relative. If she dies, will I have control over the money, or will the other relative get half?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

Will I be entitled to any of my father’s property or money when he dies if he hasn’t included me in his will? My sister says my father has left everything to her, which doesn’t seem fair. Where am I likely to find a copy of the will?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My nephew has just died, and his wife could really do with the money from her share of the house she was left by her mother three years ago. Her mother’s will stated that the house should be sold and the proceeds shared between the three siblings. But a brother who was living in the house at the time refuses to move out, thus preventing a sale. What can be done?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I’ve read somewhere about making a Property Trust Will in order to prevent the local authority using the money tied up in your house to pay for your care home fees. Can you explain what’s required?

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Area of Law: Property, Wills and Probate

For various reasons I don’t want any of my three children, who are in their 50s, to inherit anything from me when I die. But the two firms of solicitors I’ve spoken to have refused to add a codicil to my will barring my children from contesting it. They just suggest putting my partner’s name on the deeds to my house.

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

One of my brothers is severely disabled. Since my father died he now lives with my other brother, and actually owns 90 per cent of the property. We asked a solicitor whether he ought to make a will, but they didn’t think he had the necessary understanding to do so and in any case in the event of his death we would inherit his estate. Was this good advice?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My wife and I both have children from previous marriages, and I am worried that if I die first everything I have will go to her children and mine will be left out. Can I make a will leaving my half to my children if I die first?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I’m an only daughter and my mother didn’t leave a will when she died. I went to a solicitor and he gave me my mother’s estate as soon as letters of administration were granted. Ten days later the Department for Work and Pensions wrote to him about benefits my mother had been claiming during the previous 16 years. Unfortunately I’ve spent half the money; how do I stand if I’ve to repay it?

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Area of Law: Debt matter, Wills and Probate

Some time ago my grandparents made a will leaving everything to each other. My grandfather died recently and my grandmother can’t remember the name of the solicitors where they made their wills. How do I go about trying to find the will; is there some kind of “search” we can do?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

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