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Our experienced Probate and Will writing advisers are dedicated to offering you sound advice and sensible answers. Providing a sympathetic and personal service to suit your needs, our duty of care ensures the advice we give is accurate and appropriate. All Probate work and Wills created are protected by professional indemnity insurance. We are regulated by the Society of Will writers and Estate Planning Practitioners and are Registered under the Data Protection Act.

Our Probate appointments are free of charge to discuss Probate, Intestacy, Deeds of Variations, Caveats or Letters of Administration. We provide a no obligation appointment to discuss any Estate Administration. We can help you with a low cost probate application only service or we can offer our full estate administration package.

Our Low Cost Probate fees can be fixed before we start work, with no payment made in advance. All our fees can be agreed before we start work, they are taken from the estate so there is no need for unexpected bills.

We can offer help and advice with Making a Will, Estate Planning, Inheritance Tax avoidance and Lasting Power of Attorneys. We can also help you protect your property with careful Community Care planning. Making your Will is quick, simple and needn't take more than an hour of your time.

You’ll often find the words “Wills” and “Probate” mixed together in the same sentence. In actual fact, probate is simply the legal process of “administering” (or distributing) an estate after the person’s death.

The personal representative in charge of probate will look at the deceased’s instructions in their Will and ensure that they are carried out. You may have been named as an “Executor” in the Will, meaning that the deceased person wanted you to take care of their affairs after their death. If this is the case, then you should apply for a “Grant of Probate” from the Probate Registry. This is a legal document showing that you now have that responsibility, and you’ll need to provide copies of it when closing down the person’s bank accounts, accessing their funds and distributing their assets as instructed in the Will.

If the deceased didn’t leave a Will and you are a close relative, you can still apply to the Probate Registry. However in this case, if you are successful, you will be given “Grant of Letters of Administration” and you will then become an “Administrator” – given the same responsibilities but just using different terminology.