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Yes and no. They cannot inherit immediately but their inheritance will be held in Trust by the Trustees named in the Will until the beneficiary turns 18 at which point ownership of the assets will be passed to the beneficiary who at this point would be legally old enough to receive the assets.

No. Without a valid Will in place, the only assets your partner would receive are those that you own jointly with them along with any jointly owned assets debts.

Your estate planning instructions are passed to our Drafting Team for their initial audit once you have provided all required information to your consultant. After the initial audit has been completed a summary will be emailed to you for checking and once confirmed by you, your legal documents will be sent to you by 1st Class Royal Mail. Should we require any further information we shall be in contact with you. On receipt of your documents please read these carefully and should you require any amendments please call us on 01276 903400 or submit your request here. If you are happy with the documents then please follow the instructions on the covering letter sent to you with your documents. For any documents placed in our secure storage facility, you shall be issued with a Certificate to confirm the documents that we hold. Please note that this will only be issued once all documents have been completed

Yes if you want to choose who makes decisions for your property and finances and your health and welfare. It would be rare for us to draft only one type of LPA and not the other.

We will help you understand their role and in general you will know who you would like to choose. Where you have no-one that you trust enough you can instruct a professional from our panel of solicitors.