Land is the inheritance in Lincolnshire. A fenland farm of a few hundred acres can be worth more than a street of houses in Lincoln, and until recently it could pass to the next generation free of inheritance tax under agricultural property relief. Since April 2026 that relief and its business equivalent have been capped, so larger farms now face a tax bill on death that may only be payable by selling fields, and will solicitors in Lincoln have spent two years rewriting succession plans: lifetime gifts, partnership restructuring, life insurance to meet the bill, and wills that treat the child who farms and the children who left fairly without breaking the farm into pieces.
The coast has a different profile. East Lindsey has one of the oldest populations in England, and the retirement bungalows of Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea generate lasting powers of attorney, care-fee questions and probate in volume. A lasting power of attorney for finances and one for health, made while a person still has capacity, save a family from the Court of Protection later; a will saves an unmarried partner from the intestacy rules, which give them nothing. Service families at the RAF bases are encouraged to make a will before a deployment and often need it updated after one.
Probate follows: valuing land, a caravan park or a cottage in Louth, dealing with HMRC, obtaining the grant and distributing, with the executors personally responsible throughout. A farm estate rarely completes within a year.
Wills and lasting powers of attorney are fixed-fee at almost every Lincoln firm; probate may be a fixed fee, an hourly rate or a percentage of the estate.
Firms that write wills and administer estates around Lincoln are listed below, verified firms first. Useful background: wills, trusts and probate explained, what a will costs, what probate costs, lasting powers of attorney and the general will solicitors page.
