Merton Solicitors

MAKE A WILL MERTON  & PROBATE ADVICE MERTON

Wills and Probate

No one likes to consider their own mortality.  Whether you are young or young at heart, the unexpected can and does happen, making it essential to have a will.

Why bother making a will ?

A will is an important legal document which makes sure your intentions are legally carried out after you die.  They allow you to:

• Avoid dying intestate and having government rules dictate who receives your assets
• Choose who is to receive your assets and the amounts
• Ensure family heirlooms are preserved and passed down according to any tradition
• Choose guardians for your children
• Avoid inheritance tax, so your loved ones enjoy the full benefit of their inheritance
• Make trusts to make tax savings and allow grandchildren and children to enjoy the benefit of your estate
• Make charitable donations
• Decide on your own funeral arrangements
• Choose executors

The process

Before making a will, you need to think about how you go about making one.  You have three choices: you can Do It Yourself, use a professional will writer or a wills and probate solicitor.  Whatever route you choose, you need to make sure you will is valid.  If you do not possess specific legal knowledge, there is a good chance that you miss out a key requirement, thus making the will worthless.

Why choose a solicitor?

The legal profession is highly regulated, so you can be assured of getting a will that is in the very least valid, and at best a will that takes advantages of a range of tax saving options and is generally well thought out.

Our wills and probate team we help you:

• Write a valid will by making sure it is properly drafted and witnesses
• Make inheritance tax savings
• Understand the range of trusts you could use in your will
• Choose appropriate executors
• Make sure the will is safely and properly stored

Probate services

Probate describes the process of administering an estate.  We are happy to provide a wide range of advice to executors and other interested by parties by helping you apply for Grants of Probate (generally necessary to release funds where the estate is worth £5000 or more) and consider generally follow the correct legal procedures for administering an estate.

Here to help

To fully understand what we can do to help, please get in touch with our Merton wills and probate team.