Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning

Overview

We provide advice across a broad range of individual legal services tailored to your needs and focused on ensuring you have the right guidance and plans in place in order to protect you and your family in the future.

Whatever those needs may be, our skilled team of professionals aim to resolve problems regarding property, assets and financial affairs by providing appropriate, timely advice.

We know from experience that many of these problems can be highly emotional and we always endeavour to provide our services with sensitivity and tact. We work closely with other professional advisors to ensure that our clients receive an efficient and fully integrated service.

Several of our solicitors in the Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning Team are STEP qualified (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners). The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners recognises only the most experienced and qualified of legal advisors and as such you have peace of mind knowing that the legal advice you receive is of the highest quality.

Our Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning Solicitors specialise in:

• Administration of Estates
• Advice for the Elderly
• Court of Protection
• Disputed Probate
• Estate and Inheritance Tax Planning
• Living Wills
• Making a Will
• Obtaining Probate
• Powers of Attorney
• Trusts

The Wills, Trusts & Estate Planning Department is recommended in the 2012 Legal 500 Directory. "FBC Manby Bowdler LLP has the ‘very calm and bright’ Ian Fallon and Craig Ridge, whose ‘attention to detail is incredible’. The team is advising in relation to a complex £10m estate. The firm’s Court of Protection group is very active.