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personal law
Wills, Trusts, Lifetime Giving, Inheritance Tax
Our lawyers are specialists in these areas and members of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. We provide friendly, sensible and impartial advice to help clarify your ideas and ensure that those who you wish to benefit from your estate do. As everyone's needs are different we usually start with a face to face meeting to establish your circumstances and requirements before discussing the options with you.
Ashton Graham's team are well known for delivering a trusted and reliable service in these areas of law. In particular Alan Brown, Partner and Head of Private Client, is highly regarded: 'splendid results through perseverance' The Legal 500.
Wills
Passing your assets to beneficiaries of your choice requires care and careful thought. After all you have worked hard to build up and maintain those assets and want those assets to go where you choose, not by accident to someone else, and not to the Inland Revenue
We can provide advice on the most effective way of passing your assets to your chosen beneficiaries whether in your lifetime or by your will.
In planning for the succession of your estate a Will is one of the most important documents that you will ever sign - it relates to all the assets that you own, and affects your family and friends long after your death. Therefore it is important to get it right.
By far the most reliable method of preparing a will is to do so with the help of a law firm. You may be able to obtain a cheaper and simple will through other none legal companies but the best way to ensure that your wishes are carried out with full advantage taken of the latest developments in the law, and to ensure that full advantage is taken of opportunities to reduce the tax burden is to use a solicitor. We are strictly regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and you can rest assured we will still be around in years to come.
Trusts
In passing assets to others you should consider not merely who is to receive those assets but how they are to receive them. The use of a trust may be appropriate for example:
- to protect assets for beneficiaries who are infants
- to protect assets where a beneficiary may otherwise squander the inheritance
- to protect assets from the claims of others eg from an ex spouse or creditor of a beneficiary
- to protect assets should your beneficiary require residential or nursing care
- to save Inheritance Tax
Please feel free to contact one of our specialists who will be able to clearly explain the options open to you and help you to safeguard your assets for your beneficiaries. It's your life; it's unique; and it's our first concern.
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