Support on all areas of wills, trusts and probate from experienced solicitors

There are many reasons why you might want to plan for the future. Making sure your estate is in order is perhaps the most common, but increasingly people are anticipating situations that could have a have huge financial impact, such as planning for long term care.

Our solicitors in Peterborough and Stamford have a wealth of experience in all aspects of wills, trusts and probate matters. Many of them also have the highly accredited STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) qualification, membership of Solicitors for the Elderly and membership of the Private Client Section of the Law Society.

Choose from these links for useful information about this area of the law and the services we offer:

Making a Will

This guide to making a will answers most of your initial questions. Reading it is a good first step in the process of ensuring that your estate is dealt within the way you want.

Trusts

A summary of the way we can advise you on how to establish suitable trusts to transfer assets (such as property, shares or cash) and then manage them according to your wishes.

Probate

We summarise how to obtain probate to enable a deceased person's assets to be properly distributed and introduce our services in this area.

Powers of Attorney

Information about why and how you might arrange for someone to look after your affairs should you become unable to do so is included on this page.

Inheritance Tax

There are ways to reduce your inheritance tax liability and we have prepared a useful summary of them.

Wealth Management and Tax Planning

We also provide advice on more specialist areas such as residential/nursing care issues, inheritance tax planning for pensions, planning for death in service benefits, life assurance trusts and asset preservation.

You can greatly increase the chance that your family inheritance will pass on in the right way with the support of our experienced solicitors in Peterborough and Stamford. They can also help with the increasingly relevant issue of funding retirement or nursing home care.