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Our wills and estates team can assist you with all aspects of planning your finances during your lifetime and ensuring that your estate is distributed in accordance with your wishes following your death.

We can help with the following:

Wills drafting, from straightforward wills to detailed Inheritance Tax Planning
Setting up gifts and trusts
Powers of Attorney and management of your affairs
Court of Protection matters
Care home planning
Personal Injury Trusts

The team is lead by Jasper Dawson, who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in private client services. John-Paul Dennis and Claire Currie are both specialist solicitors in this field.

Jasper and his team deal in all areas of private client work especially estate planning and administration. The wills and estates department is based primarily in our Wirral offices, but we also offer home, hospital or nursing home visits where necessary, and will attend client meetings in our Liverpool office by appointment at no extra cost.

Wills

We are experienced in the production of wills, regardless of marital and family situations, and we can also offer Inheritance Tax and care home fee planning advice for clients with these issues.

Your will can be stored within our offices, and we can make provisions for the future management of your affairs. We are also members of Certainty.co.uk which is a national wills register which will ensure that the whereabouts of your will is electronically recorded so that your family can always locate it at our office.

Administration of Estates (Probate)

We recognise that people, when dealing with an estate, need a sympathetic and understanding approach, combined with professional advice and expertise. Following bereavement, we can offer you a full range of estate administration services to help relieve some of the pressure and administrative responsibilities.

Applying for the appropriate Grant of Representation
Administering the whole estate to the appointed beneficiaries from applying for Grants of Representation to ultimate distribution
Personal administration where required, including registering death, arranging a funeral and sorting through personal possessions
Arranging deeds of Variation for IHT planning purposes

Lasting Power of Attorney and Court of Protection

We can also assist in preparing an appropriate Power of Attorney for immediate or future use. We have many years experience in assisting clients to deal with their affairs at what can be a difficult time, including equity release mortgages, selling your home to facilitate a move to care or full management of clients' affairs whilst acting as their Attorney. If a relative has lost mental capacity without having granted a Lasting Power of Attorney, we can act in an application to the Court of Protection for a Deputyship order to give you authority to manage their affairs.