Wills & Powers Of Attorney

It is important to ensure that your assets pass to the people you want inherit them and to do so, we recommend that you write a Will. A Will is a legal document which avoids your estate from being distributed in accordance with the intestacy rules and gives clarity to your family over your wishes. A Will may always be changed, updated or re-written.

A lasting power of attorney (LPA) is a legal document that lets you (the ‘donor’) appoint one or more people (known as ‘attorneys’) to help you make decisions or to make decisions on your behalf.

This gives you more control over what happens to you if you have an accident or an illness and cannot make your own decisions.

There are 2 types of LPA:

Health and welfare
Property and financial affairs

You can choose to make one type of LPA or both.

Fees

Our fees for Wills are:

£200 for a basic individual will
£225 for a pair of joint basic mirror wills

Our fees for Powers of Attorney are:

£225 plus disbursements for one individual POA (health and welfare or property and financial affairs)
£350 plus disbursements for both types of POA for an individual
£350 plus disbursements for a pair of individual POAs of one type (health and welfare or property and financial affairs)
£600 plus disbursements for two pairs of individual POAs of both types

If clients wish to make both Will and POA arrangements, then our fees are as follows:

£325 plus disbursements for a basic individual will and one individual POA (health and welfare or property and financial affairs)
£450 plus disbursements for a basic individual will and both types of POA
£475 plus disbursements for a pair of joint basic mirror wills and a pair of individual POAs of one type (health and welfare or property and financial affairs)
£725 plus disbursements for a pair of joint basic mirror wills and two pairs of individual POAs of both types

Fees for any arrangements not listed above and for more complex Wills are available on request.

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At Best Advice, we are able to facilitate the arrangements for writing both Wills and LPAs. We have client experience of how these important documents are able to make things easier for affected families during difficult times by allowing a trusted nominated individual or individuals (often a family member) to manage the affairs of another.