Wills starting from £400 plus vat:

Everyone’s wishes and requirements for their Wills are different.  We offer an initial appointment to discuss this with you and take your instructions.  Please note we can only meet with the person/people making the Will(s) - family members, friends etc are welcome to bring you to the office but they cannot be present whilst instructions are taken.   After the meeting, we will prepare a draft and send this to you for approval.  If you require minor amendments, we will make these for you before preparing the Will for signing.  If more wholesale changes are required because you decide to change your initial instructions, we may have to consider further charges for this additional work.

•              A standard single Will starting from £400 plus VAT

•              Standard mirror Wills (i.e. two Wills on broadly similar terms) will cost £600 plus VAT

•              Complex Wills (including trusts) start from £500 plus VAT

Lasting Power of Attorney starting from £399 plus vat:

The person appointing the attorneys is our client and therefore the person we would meet with.  No other person can be present during these meeting.  We will discuss the important of an LPA with you and the reasons for preparing the same.  Providing you are happy, we take you instructions and after the meeting prepare the LPA(s) on the basis of these instructions. We will then send the document(s) to you with instructions on how to correctly sign the same.  Once you return the signed document to us with settlement of our invoice, we will then apply to the Office of the Public Guardian to register the same.  The Office of the Public Guardian are likely to take at least 6 weeks to do this.  Once the document(s) is/are registered, they are returned to you so that you can then use the same.

•              1 LPA £399 plus VAT

•              2 LPAs £500 plus VAT

•              4 LPA £700 plus VAT

In addition to our legal fee you can expect to pay:

•              Office of Public Guardian £82.00 per document

Probate starting from £1200.00 plus VAT for a simple estate with no tax to pay and £1800.00 plus VAT for a simple estate with tax to pay.;

Every person’s estate is different and therefore the amount of work entailed (and therefore the costs involved) will vary.  We offer two services:

1.            We can just obtain the grant of probate for you. This requires us having the original Will, death certificate, deceased’s national insurance number and date of death values for all assets/liabilities of the deceased. We can then prepare the forms required by HMRC (which will depend on the value of the estate) and an oath for the executors to sign. These are submitted to the Probate Registry and providing all is in order, the grant will be issued. The executors can then choose to liaise with all banks, building societies, utility companies, lease firms, loan companies etc. to close accounts, pay invoices etc and then distributed the state and keep records for a minimum of 7 years.

2.            Our full probate service includes dealing with the entire estate for which we charge a percentage of the estate (typically between 2.5% – 3.5%) plus VAT and disbursements and will be assessed after considering available documents. Some executors ask us to obtain the grant (as per point 1 above) and then deal with all the various bank, building societies etc before distributing the estate in accordance with the Will.

If there is no Will, the rules of intestacy apply.  This means there is a prescribed order as to (a) who can act as personal representative in the estate and (b) who the beneficiaries of the estate will be. You then obtain Letters of Administration rather than a grant of probate, but the processes described above are broadly similar.

Family and Matrimonial

Divorce fixed costs for simplae agreed matters will be £840 including VAT. In addtion to this there will be a fee to the court of £593.

Consent Order / Separation Agreement will be charged at £480 including VAT. In addition to this there will be a court fee of £53 and our standard hourly rate will apply to correspondence relating to the matter.

Hourly Rates starting from £125 plus vat:

Where your matter attracts an hourly fee the following rates apply:

•              Director £350 per hour (plus vat £70 total £420)

•              Senior Solicitor £275 per (plus vat £55 total £300)

•              Solicitor £225 per hour (plus vat £45 total £270)

•              Licenced Conveyancer £225 per hour (plus vat £45 total £270)

•              Junior Solicitor £175 per hour (plus vat £35 total £210)

•              Senior Assistants £125 per hour (plus vat £25 total £150)

If the matter does have unexpected complications we will inform you of this immediately, and would fully discuss the potential consequences of that before any extra charges were incurred. Please note the fees assume you are instructing us directly and not being introduced to us through an intermediary e.g. an estate agent, broker or lender with whom we may have existing commercial referral agreements. If you request storage of your documents a charge will be applied as set out in our terms of business.