Wills & Probate
Talking about death and what will happen to your loved ones after you pass can be a difficult topic, but the simple act of writing a will can offer the opportunity to share your wishes and to talk openly about what you would like to happen when you’re gone.
No-one knows what tomorrow will bring, but preparing a will gives you the peace of mind that your friends and family will be cared for should the unthinkable happen.
Helping You Prepare For The Future
The dedicated specialist solicitors in our Wills & Probate department, are committed to providing friendly, considerate, and practical advice to help you and your family plan for the future.
Preparing Wills
If you’re over 18 and have possessions, property of value, or dependents, making a will is sensible and thoughtful decision that benefits your family in the days, weeks, and years after you’ve gone.
Preparing your will, enables you to share your estate with the ones closest to you, and allows you say what you want to happen to you after your death, whether that’s using your body for medical research or the music you’d like played at your funeral.
Our highly-experienced wills and probate solicitors will highlight the important things to consider and give you personalised advice when you’re making your will.
Changing Wills
Changing your will gives you the opportunity to include newcomers into your life, maybe a grandchild or a new partner, and gives you a chance to review your existing will to ensure your own wishes and your family’s interests remain protected.
Our wills and probate team can give you dedicated up-to-date advice so your loved ones will get the greatest benefit from the estate and assets you leave to them.
Disputed Wills & Inheritance
With will disputes arising between beneficiaries and an estate, or a beneficiary and an executor of the will, Falcon Law can offer expert representation through pragmatic mediation sessions or court proceedings, aiming to keep costs and stress levels low and preventing emotions and the dispute from escalating.
Probate & Administration of Estates
We aim to make estate management as simple and stress-free as possible for the family.
Trusts
Our wills and probate solicitors are on hand to give friendly, professional advice on setting up a trust through to offering skilled litigation services in the event a trust is called into contention after you’ve gone.
With extensive experience of working with Trusts and Trustees, we can offer our insight whilst managing the personal circumstances surrounding your specific case.
Lasting & Enduring Power of Attorney
A Lasting Power of Attorney allows you to choose a trusted individual to make decisions about your personal, health, and financial matters if there comes a time when you’re unable to do so yourself.
Giving you professional and timely advice about Lasting Power of Attorney and Enduring power of Attorney, our friendly team of solicitors will help you to prepare for the future practically and sensitively.
Court of Protection
Falcon Law can provide specialist support to clients living with a progressive neurological condition, like dementia, or a traumatic brain injury, that affects their ability to make their own decisions. We can offer representation in a deputy role ourselves, or provide ongoing legal advice and support to relatives or friends who have applied to act as a deputy, to ensure our elderly and disabled clients still have a voice.