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Wills and Estate Planning

All clients, whatever their circumstances and means, are faced with the following questions -

  • How do I best arrange my own assets and resources to meet my needs and the needs of my family?
  • How do I best arrange my affairs in my old age?
  • Who should benefit from my assets after I am dead?

We have very substantial experience in advising all types of clients in answering these questions.

The Team

We have a team of highly skilled and experienced solicitors who are trained to listen carefully to their clients and come up with the best possible solutions to their needs.

The Wills and Estate Planning Services Team is headed by Andrew Mortimer.

We ensure that the members of the team have the relevant qualifications and skills. All the partners and solicitors belong to the Team and all of them have, or plan to obtain, the industry-recognised qualification for this area of work through the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners.

We work closely with clients' professional advisers, including accountants, brokers and financial advisers. Where necessary, we call on the experience and skills of other units in the firm to address the legal issues facing our clients.

The team has an enviable and growing reputation for its work, and members of it regularly lecture on relevant topics, including for example inheritance tax and the changes introduced to the inheritance tax treatment of trusts by the Finance Act 2006.

This practice area has the following three main elements -

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Contact

Nicholas Parsons (Cirencester) - Head of Non-Contentious Private Client

Andrew Mortimer - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Senior Team

Anthony Acton - Partner, Trusts & Estates

David Ainslie - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Alison Allen - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Matthew Braithwaite - Solicitor, Trusts & Estates

Rachel Curtis - Solicitor, Trusts & Estates

Mary Daws - Solicitor, Trusts & Estates

Charles Hayward - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Kathryn Layzell - Solicitor, Trusts & Estates

Carol Morris - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Andrew Mortimer - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Richard Mullings - Partner, Trusts & Estates

Kate Nairn - Associate, Trusts & Estates

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