Probate

Michelmores offers guidance for family and friends through the difficult and distressing time of personal bereavement.

Our experience and professional approach provides clear and firm advice at a time when it is needed most.

• Administration of estates
• Collecting the assets of the estate
• Settling liabilities
• Distributing assets according to the terms of a will or according to the statutory rules that apply when there is no will
• Advising Executors about powers and responsibilities
• Guidance through disputes over the settlement of wills or in the case of intestacy
• Advice where claims are made against a deceased's will, where there are disputes between beneficiaries or trustees or over the competence of the other professional advisers
• Post death tax planning and Deeds of Variation to mitigate tax liabilities