Wills Solicitors.

Ensure you protect your wishes, and get your will drafted correctly.

An introduction to our will-writing services

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.

  • Inheritance tax advice to help minimise tax
  • Will is correctly drafted by a wills solicitor
  • Free will storage in our firms safe room
  • Free will registration on the National Wills Register
Elisabeth Squires
Director

FAQs

Commonly asked questions on Wills.

1. Why should I make a will?

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:

  • Your money and possessions are distributed according to your wishes.
  • Unmarried partners and partners who have not registered a civil partnership can inherit from each other.
  • Step-children can inherit.
  • You can make provisions for your children in situations where one or both parents die. For example, appointing a guardian to raise your children.

2. When should I make a will?

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:

  • Purchasing a substantial asset, for example, a house.
  • Becoming a parent.
  • You’re in a relationship but haven’t chosen to marry or enter a civil partnership.
  • You’re getting a divorce.

3. How to make a will?

With Britton and Time, you can complete your will in 4 easy steps, which are:

  • 1. Contact us. Speak to a member of our team on 020 3007 5500, who will briefly discuss your estate and give you a price estimate. Following this, you will be sent a wills questionnaire and booked in for a consultation with our will solicitors.
  • 2 Consultation. In this consultation, you will sit down with one of our will solicitors, who will listen to your wishes and go through your wills questionnaire with you.
  • 3. Draft your will. Once our solicitors understand your wishes, we will draft your will accordingly.
  • 4 Completion. Finally, once you’re happy with your will we can sign, store and register you will on the National Free Wills Register.

4. How much does a will cost?

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.

ServiceIndividualMirrored Wills (2 wills)Information
Essential Will£500 plus VAT£650 plus VATCovers simple estates which tend only to include assets in the UK with no business assets
Tailored Will£700 plus VAT£850 plus VATCovers more complicated estates which include overseas assets and/or business assets
Comprehensive WillFrom £1,100 plus VATFrom £1,500 plus VATCovers highly complex assets such as copyrighted/trademarked assets, intellectual property/patents and religious elements in the estate
CodicilFrom £300 plus VATFrom £400 plus VATCodicils are separate documents that accompany a will to make minor changes. Examples of these changes are changing executors or updating funeral wishes.

4. Why use a solicitor to draft my will?

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:

  • Your will is drafted correctly.
  • The likelihood of your will being contested is minimised.
  • Free will storage.
  • Free will registration on the National Wills Register.
  • Simple inheritance tax advice to minimise tax.

Meet our expert wills team.

Need legal advice now from a solicitor in London or Brighton?

Call, email or provide us with a few details of your matter, and we’ll help you arrange an initial consultation. You’ll get:

  • Unlimited time to discuss your matter with a solicitor.
  • An outline of your legal position and available options.
  • A clear time and fee estimate for your case.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Established in 2020 in Brighton and Hove, we’re one of the newest and fastest-growing law firms in the South East. Our award-winning team have enabled us to grow to two locations; our head office in Hove, East Sussex, and our Mayfair office in London’s West End.

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