Surbiton's mansion blocks and avenues are full of people who have lived in the same home for forty years, and whose estates have grown with the postcode. Will solicitors in Kingston upon Thames spend much of their time with this generation: a flat or house worth far more than anyone imagined, a pension, savings, perhaps a holiday home, and children and grandchildren to provide for fairly and tax-efficiently. Coombe and Kingston Hill add inheritance tax planning of real complexity: lifetime gifts, trusts for grandchildren, business and investment property reliefs, and charitable legacies.
Not every estate is large, nor every family simple. Second marriages in Chessington and Tolworth raise the question of how to provide for a new spouse without disinheriting the children of the first; unmarried partners, who inherit nothing under the intestacy rules, need a will or a declaration of trust on the house; and New Malden's Korean households, like many families with roots abroad, may own property in two countries and need to know whether one will can govern both. A will solicitor asks about all of it before drafting a word.
Lasting powers of attorney go alongside the will, one for money and one for health and care; they can only be made while the person still has capacity and should be registered before they are needed. After a death the same firms obtain the grant of probate, settle inheritance tax with HMRC, sell or transfer the property and distribute the estate, and executors facing a complicated estate often hand the whole task over.
A will or a power of attorney is normally priced as a fixed fee; probate charges vary between fixed, hourly and percentage bases, so ask which applies.
Will solicitors near Kingston upon Thames are listed below, verified firms first. Our explainers on wills, trusts and probate, lasting powers of attorney and the likely cost of a will or probate answer the common questions, and the will solicitors page sets out the service generally.
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