Wills and Estates
Wills and Estates
Wills and Estates
Wills
Napier & Sons offers sensitive and pragmatic advice in drafting wills.
Do you know what will happen to your possessions after death in the absence of a will and who will be responsible for dealing with your estate? We believe that every person over the age of 18 should have a will.
For example, consider the following questions:
- Are you unmarried / not in a civil partnership but have children?
- If you have children under 18, what will happen to them should you and your spouse / partner die?
- Do you have particularly valuable (either in terms of money or sentimental value) items that you would like a particular person to have after your death or have you recently come into a large sum of money?
- Are you looking after anyone who is unable to look after themselves, whether through some underlying condition such as Autism or Down's Syndrome, or a significant brain injury? If so, what will happen to them and how will they be provided for by your estate?
We can address all or any of these areas through the drafting of your will.
Estates
Napier & Sons provides sympathetic and pragmatic advice on administering a deceased's estate, whether or not they left a will. We can advise on whether probate is required (it may well not be if the estate is small and/or largely made up of property owned jointly with someone else), obtaining the appropriate grant of probate ("letters of administration" if there is no will) and distributing the estate proceeds accordingly.
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