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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 father died three years ago, leaving myself and my nephew as beneficiaries of his will. Since then my nephew has been locked in an argument with the solicitor who drafted the will, whose fees are steadily rising in the meantime. How can I get them to resolve the matter?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My wife and I haven’’t any property to leave so we haven’’t made a will. However we would like to make sure that any money we have goes to my wife’s son by her previous marriage when we die. Is it possible to make a joint will to this effect?

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My friend tells me that neither she nor her husband of 20 years has made a will. Her husband has two sons by a previous marriage and the house they live in is in his name only. In the event of her husband’s death, what claim would the stepchildren have on the estate?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

Where a will is invalid because it has not been drawn up correctly, is the estate distributed among next of kin, or is the Crown involved?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My sister claims that because she is the oldest my mother’s house will go to her. In her will my mother leaves the house and contents to my father, with everything else to be shared between us. However my father has died since she made the will, so surely the house will go into mum’s estate and the proceeds will be shared?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I want to make a will. Do I have to employ solicitors to do it, or can I just buy the forms myself and provide my own witnesses?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I have made a will leaving half of my estate to my grown-up daughter, with the other half divided between my niece and nephew. However I wondered whether my daughter might be able to claim the whole estate when I die?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My daughter is divorced and has made a will leaving everything to her 10-year-old son, with me and my sister to act as trustees until he is 18. She is worried that if we were both to die, or if my grandson failed to reach 18, her estate would go either to his father or his father’s children by a previous marriage. Should she add a codicil to take this into account?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My uncle has a two-bedroomed flat. I am his only relative. Will I automatically inherit it when he dies? He hasn’’t made a will, so I was wondering about the procedure?

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