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Ensure you protect your wishes, and get your will drafted correctly.
Protecting your family’s future starts with a carefully crafted will. Our solicitors provide expert guidance in creating comprehensive, legally robust wills that accurately reflect your wishes and provide clarity for your loved ones.
FAQs
A will is important because it can decide how your assets are divided and who inherits from your estate when you pass away. In a circumstance where there is no will, any unaccounted assets are distributed following specific rules known as the ‘intestacy rules’. Under the intestacy rules, the deceased’s estate can only be inherited by their spouse, civil partner and a few other relatives. Therefore, distant relatives may end up inheriting from your estate over partners and step-children. Making a will ensures the following:
There’s no set time in someone’s life to make a will. However, the sooner you make a will, the better, as you never know when the worst can happen. Furthermore, your first will may not be your only will. You can alter or write a new will at significant periods of your life. For example, if you get a divorce and no longer want your former partner to be a beneficiary. Some key moments in someone’s life where it’s beneficial to get a will include:
With Britton and Time, you can complete your will in 4 easy steps, which are:
The cost of a will depends on the assets in your estate, who the beneficiaries of your will are and whether you already have a will that you wish to make small alterations to.
With any will, we offer free will storage and free will registration on the National Wills Register.
Service | Individual | Mirrored Wills (2 wills) | Information |
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Essential Will | £500 plus VAT | £650 plus VAT | Covers simple estates which tend only to include assets in the UK with no business assets |
Tailored Will | £700 plus VAT | £850 plus VAT | Covers more complicated estates which include overseas assets and/or business assets |
Comprehensive Will | From £1,100 plus VAT | From £1,500 plus VAT | Covers highly complex assets such as copyrighted/trademarked assets, intellectual property/patents and religious elements in the estate |
Codicil | From £300 plus VAT | From £400 plus VAT | Codicils are separate documents that accompany a will to make minor changes. Examples of these changes are changing executors or updating funeral wishes. |
Due to your will being the document that distributes your estate, it’s essential that it’s correctly drafted. Any mistakes in the will may result in costly but avoidable problems, for instance, your true wishes falling into question. Our will solicitor’s guarantee:
Call, email or provide us with a few details of your matter, and we’ll help you arrange an initial consultation. You’ll get:
No fee surprises. Ever. Our solicitors in London and Brighton will inform you from the outset how much your case will cost and we will do everything in our power to keep costs down and within your original fee estimate.
You are our priority and law is our speciality. Our award-winning solicitors in London and Brighton ensure you know exactly where you stand from a legal perspective so you can make a well-informed decision.
With fortnightly updates on your case, you’ll never be left in the dark. Our solicitors in London and Brighton ensure you know exactly how your case is progressing and are with you every step of the way.
What we do
Our untimed initial consultations provide you with as long as you need to speak to a specialist solicitor about your matter.