Wills, trusts and probate
Every family is different. Therefore our wills, trusts and probate legal services are shaped around your specific, individual needs.
Our wills and trusts solicitors are experienced in helping families in a variety of circumstances. We get to know you, understand your precise wishes, ensure your family is protected and your wealth is passed on in the most secure, tax-efficient way.
How we can help
Our trust and will legal services are based on wide-ranging experience and a comprehensive knowledge of tax laws. We have a first class reputation in this area, and are known across the country for the work we do. Our team comprises experts in estate planning, creating and managing trusts, probate, estate administration, accounting and taxation.
Many of our clients have complex personal and business needs, so we provide project management support, co-ordinating all aspects of their succession and tax planning with multiple professional advisers across several jurisdictions, leaving the client with one clear point of contact throughout. We also have a team that specialises in cross-border tax and succession planning for international clients.
Whatever your position we will ensure your exposure to tax is minimised and your wealth maximised.
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Partner and Head of Private Wealth, London +44 (0)20 7591 3324 jeremy.curtis@cripps.co.uk
Partner and Head of Tax, Trusts and Estates +44 (0)1892 506 011 richard.mencner@cripps.co.uk
Our wills, trusts and probate experience
Advising a UK national married to a non-UK national on a mutual wills agreement and its enforceability across two jurisdictions.
Wills and succession planning for high net worth couple with significant assets and complex family arrangements to ensure inheritance tax planning while retaining asset protection.
Successfully resolved a complex dispute over the validity of a Deceased’s Will and the administration of an estate, which included a high value business and assets with a collective value of c£6 million.
Acted for the trustees of a rural landed estate held on a will trust, advising on the termination and eventual distribution of the underlying assets.
Dealt with a complex estate advising a beneficiary on their entitlement under a will, including the priority for funding a will trust and the repayment of a loan to an existing trust.
Successfully representing a client who brought a claim alleging a will was invalid on the grounds of undue influence and the testator lacked capacity when making the will.
Advising a widow pursuing an inheritance claim in a high value estate seeking to vary her entitlement under the terms of her late husband’s Will, resolved following a mediation.
Advised and acted as executor and trustee of a number of complex probates and family trusts.
Acting in the probate sale of a large rectory and adjoining fields that involved the negotiation of a farm business tenancy and the transfer of a cautionary interest.
Advised a high net worth businesswoman on complex international, and disputed, probate issues over 13 years so as to recover over £1 million for the ultimate beneficiaries of the estate.
Our client successes
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If you have a question or need advice, please let us know how we can help.