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Will Drafting Pricing
The prices and timescales in this document are indicative.
| Service | Fee Estimate | Explanation | Estimated Timescales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Will | £500 plus VAT (£750 plus VAT for a couple) | No foreign assets No business interests No trusts and otherwise reasonably straightforward Wills for a couple need to be in substantively similar terms (mirror wills) | 2 weeks |
| Non-Standard Wills | £1,000 plus VAT (£1,500 plus VAT for a couple) | A standard will plus inclusion of a life-interest trust or discretionary trust Wills for a couple need to be in substantively similar terms (mirror wills) | 2-4 weeks |
| Bespoke Wills | Upwards of £1,000 plus VAT (Upwards of £1,500 plus VAT for a couple) | If the above fixed-fee options aren’t suitable, we may be able to offer a bespoke-fixed-fee option. | 2-6 weeks |
Supplementary matters
Our will-drafting services do not include the following:
| Service | Fee Estimate | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Capacity Assessment | £250 plus VAT | Organising an assessment of capacity with a third-party specialist if reasonably required |
| Severing a Joint Tenancy | £150 plus VAT | Applies if you jointly own a property as joint tenants and you wish to deal with your own individual share of the property in your will. |
| Letter of Wishes (of a reasonable length) | £250 plus VAT | Applies if you are including a trust where trustees have flexibility regarding distributing assets, you are disinheriting somebody, or you are leaving your personal possessions to someone and |
| Will Storage and/or Registration | £75 plus VAT | Organising storage and/or registration of the will with Certainty (the provider of the National Will Register) or for organising storage with the Probate Registry. |
If instructions and/or execution need to take place outside of our office, we charge for our fee earner’s travel time at the rate of £105 plus VAT per hour. You also agree to pay our reasonable travel costs.
Third-party charges are not included, such as the costs of a third-party capacity assessment, the costs of will storage with a third-party, the costs of registration with Certainty if desired, and the cost of copies of the property register.
Our fixed fees do not extend to any part of the work that becomes unreasonably excessive or that a solicitor in our position would not have reasonably foreseen as being required.