Probate

Protecting your assets and planning effectively for tax applies to more and more people these days, not just the super-rich.  Simple wills and reviewing your assets can be an effective way to pass on as much of your estate to those you wish to benefit as possible.

Oliver & Co's Probate Department can supply wills which will achieve this for all sizes of estates and provide effective tax advice.  An investment now can save much money later.  It is also important that your wills are reviewed from time to time as circumstances can change.

If you are an Executor to a Will, you are taking on a significant responsibility and many of our clients come to us requesting help in fulfilling that duty.

Probate is the legal term for the authority to deal with a person's assets after their death, and it is Probate that grants that authority to the Executor. If there is no Will a grant of Letters of Administration needs to be applied for by one or more of the next of kin.  This is effectively the same as the grant of Probate in that the Administrator has authority in law to collect the assets and distribute them according to the legal rules of Intestacy. Who gets what is determined by who actually survives the deceased.

For further information please contact Sally Tipping on 01244 312306 or by email sally.tipping @oliverandco.co.uk or complete the enquiry form above.

Click on the links below for further information on:

Wills

Probate

Trusts

Equity Release

Administration of Estate

Court of Protection