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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

I received a legacy in my late uncle’s will. However I never saw a copy of the will itself, and my solicitor says I wasn’t entitled to do so because the money “wasn’t paid out of the residue”. What does this mean?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My daughter and I have a joint bank account. Assuming I die before her, will all the money in the account then belong to my daughter? If I have to go into a nursing home, will her share of the money have to go towards my upkeep?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I have two children by a previous marriage. My wife and I have made wills leaving everything to each other, but I am concerned that if I were to die first my children might get nothing and my wife’s relatives might have first claim on her estate. How can I overcome this?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

We’ve been told that the need for probate can be avoided when one of us dies by only having a certain amount of money in your bank or building society. Each bank sets its own limit, and providing you keep it under that sum they pay out to the surviving partner. So if your savings are split between different banks there’s no need for probate. Most of our savings are not in joint names.

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My mother had a brother and a sister. Her brother died some time ago, and her sister died in April, leaving some money. We wondered what percentage of the sister’s money will go to my mother, and how much will go to the brother’s children?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I am a joint executor and beneficiary of a will, but the other executor is objecting to the will’s validity. Is it possible for just one of the executors to apply for probate? Any legal costs could exceed the value of my inheritance.

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My elderly father gave me the deeds to his house some time ago, saying that when he died he wanted me to have the property. He has now changed his mind, and says he wants the house to be shared between his family. Do I have to return the deeds?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My brother and I are my mother’s only relatives. According to him she’s written down on a piece of paper that her money is to be shared equally between us, and that he’s been named executor. Do I have the right to see this piece of paper to ensure that my mother’s wishes are carried out?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

Our solicitor says we can’t have our wills back. Surely we should be entitled to them? Since we don’t have much money left we don’t think it’s necessary to leave wills at all.

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

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