Careful planning
Throughout our life, our personal circumstances are constantly changing. Whether you are considering restructuring your personal affairs or reorganising assets, careful planning is essential.
Forshaws Davies Ridgway can handle all aspects of your personal legal matters, including dealing with probate, setting up and administering trusts, drafting powers of attorney and drawing up Wills.
We have a team of highly experienced lawyers to guide clients through straightforward or complex matters. Everyone has their own wishes for the future distribution of their possessions and we take great care to ensure these wishes are fulfilled.
Wills
It is essential that you have a valid will in place. In that will you can clearly set out who you want to inherit your property and assets and who you wish to sort matters out on your behalf. You then need to have your will checked every few years or if there is a major change in personal circumstances.
Probate and Administration of Estates
When someone dies it is necessary for somebody to deal with their “estate”. A person’s estate consists of the money, property and any possessions they had at the time of their death.
Trusts, planning, inheritance tax and long term care
When planning for the future it’s important that you carefully consider the implications of choosing trusts and minimising inheritance tax payable on an estate by beneficiaries. You may also have understandable concerns about the possibility of long term care in your later years – and how that may impact on your family finances.
Lasting Powers of Attorney
A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) enables you to choose who you would like to manage your property, financial and general affairs should you become unable to manage them yourself, and gives that person the measure of power that you define.
Living wills
Living Wills are subject to much debate, as a patient’s wishes sometimes conflict with those of the medical profession. We can advise you about the latest legal situations.
Wills and Estate Disputes
The death of a relative or friend is always a stressful time. The last thing that you should want to worry about is the distribution of the estate but sometimes this can be important if it is believed that the estate distribution is incorrect.
