As the name suggests, this department is about people. It is not just about money and taxes, important though they are. The basic cycle of birth, marriage and death always continues. Each stage brings a change in your life and you should take stock and decide whether your legal affairs are in order. You may want to make a will, provide for a child or create a trust for someone who, from age or infirmity, cannot look after themselves.
Our task is to ensure your wishes with regard to your family and your property are carried out. Our team is highly skilled in these areas of law and sensitive to your needs. We have a wealth of knowledge and can help you whether the matter is simple or complex.
Wills
Everyone who cares about what happens to their family and their property should make a will. It is the only way you can ensure that your wishes are carried out. If you do not make a will the rules of intestacy come into play and the selection of your personal representatives and distribution of your estate will be governed by rules over which you have no control.
It is especially important for those living together who are not married to make a will to ensure that your property goes as your family would wish. Making a will is usually a straightforward procedure and carried out quickly at low cost.
Estate Planning
Only two things are certain in life – death and taxes. You are entitled to avoid tax (tax evasion is illegal) and making a will is a good time to organize your affairs to maximum advantage within the law. Sometimes lifetime gifts are appropriate but these too have tax implications.
Trusts
Trusts have always been a significant part of the work of the Private Client Department. They are not only useful for avoiding tax but are widely used to look after assets either for beneficiaries not able to look after themselves for reasons of age or infirmity, or where outright ownership among a number of people would be disadvantageous. They are often used to hold land or shares in family companies.
The setting up of a trust is a technical process and will have tax implications. We can give you advice based on our long experience and, if you wish, we can run and administer it for you.
We also advise beneficiaries and trustees of their legal duties and rights under trusts, and how to break trusts.
Examples of Private Client cases:
• Advising on the need for a will, and drafting wills
• Advising on all aspects of estate and tax planning
• Advising on the need for and execution of Lasting Powers of Attorney for both health & welfare and property & financial matters
• Advising on establishing a will trust and then acting as trustees of the same in order to ensure the correct financial management of the trust assets and liaising with the beneficiaries re: distributions
• Probate: acting as executors of deceased client’s wills and handling all matters connected to the collection and distribution of the relevant estates. Recent cases have involved advising on deeds of variation whereby the beneficiaries all agreed to alter the terms of the will to achieve a more inheritance tax efficient distribution to benefit the next generation
• We also advise where the deceased did not make a will and has therefore died “intestate”
• Advising long term cohabitees of the tactics and strategies to deploy when making financial plans for the future
• We specialise in dealing with elderly clients; as people grow older, their finances and assets can become more complex so we can support our clients to ensure their wishes are met
• We assist attorneys with legal advice so they can carry out their roles and responsibilities including checking care home contracts and advising on long term care funding
From straightforward debt recovery to complex international litigation and arbitration, our Litigation Department provides a highly personal and focused service.
Brooke Gordon
From start-up ventures to publicly quoted groups, our Corporate and Commercial Department provides a wide range of client focused legal expertise.
Brooke Gordon
We act for a variety of commercial property clients both large and small, take care to understand their particular needs and aspirations.
Brooke
Gordon
Few areas of the law change as frequently as employment law. The increasing influence of the European Union has heightened the need for employers to keep up to date with legislation affecting the workplace.
Private Client
As the name suggests, this department is about people. It is not just about money and taxes, important though they are. The basic cycle of birth, marriage and death always continues. Each stage brings a change in your life and you should take stock and decide whether your legal affairs are in order. You may want to make a will, provide for a child or create a trust for someone who, from age or infirmity, cannot look after themselves.
Our task is to ensure your wishes with regard to your family and your property are carried out. Our team is highly skilled in these areas of law and sensitive to your needs. We have a wealth of knowledge and can help you whether the matter is simple or complex.
Wills
Everyone who cares about what happens to their family and their property should make a will. It is the only way you can ensure that your wishes are carried out. If you do not make a will the rules of intestacy come into play and the selection of your personal representatives and distribution of your estate will be governed by rules over which you have no control.
It is especially important for those living together who are not married to make a will to ensure that your property goes as your family would wish. Making a will is usually a straightforward procedure and carried out quickly at low cost.
Estate Planning
Only two things are certain in life – death and taxes. You are entitled to avoid tax (tax evasion is illegal) and making a will is a good time to organize your affairs to maximum advantage within the law. Sometimes lifetime gifts are appropriate but these too have tax implications.
Trusts
Trusts have always been a significant part of the work of the Private Client Department. They are not only useful for avoiding tax but are widely used to look after assets either for beneficiaries not able to look after themselves for reasons of age or infirmity, or where outright ownership among a number of people would be disadvantageous. They are often used to hold land or shares in family companies.
The setting up of a trust is a technical process and will have tax implications. We can give you advice based on our long experience and, if you wish, we can run and administer it for you.
We also advise beneficiaries and trustees of their legal duties and rights under trusts, and how to break trusts.
Examples of Private Client cases:
• Advising on the need for a will, and drafting wills
• Advising on all aspects of estate and tax planning
• Advising on the need for and execution of Lasting Powers of Attorney for both health & welfare and property & financial matters
• Advising on establishing a will trust and then acting as trustees of the same in order to ensure the correct financial management of the trust assets and liaising with the beneficiaries re: distributions
• Probate: acting as executors of deceased client’s wills and handling all matters connected to the collection and distribution of the relevant estates. Recent cases have involved advising on deeds of variation whereby the beneficiaries all agreed to alter the terms of the will to achieve a more inheritance tax efficient distribution to benefit the next generation
• We also advise where the deceased did not make a will and has therefore died “intestate”
• Advising long term cohabitees of the tactics and strategies to deploy when making financial plans for the future
• We specialise in dealing with elderly clients; as people grow older, their finances and assets can become more complex so we can support our clients to ensure their wishes are met
• We assist attorneys with legal advice so they can carry out their roles and responsibilities including checking care home contracts and advising on long term care funding
Litigation
Brooke
From straightforward debt recovery to complex international litigation and arbitration, our Litigation Department provides a highly personal and focused service.
Brooke
Gordon
From start-up ventures to publicly quoted groups, our Corporate and Commercial Department provides a wide range of client focused legal expertise.
Brooke
Gordon
Property
Brooke
We act for a variety of commercial property clients both large and small, take care to understand their particular needs and aspirations.
Brooke
Gordon
Brooke
Employment
Brooke
Few areas of the law change as frequently as employment law. The increasing influence of the European Union has heightened the need for employers to keep up to date with legislation affecting the workplace.
Private Client
As the name suggests, this department is about people. It is not just about money and taxes, important though they are. The basic cycle of birth, marriage and death always continues. Each stage brings a change in your life and you should take stock and decide whether your legal affairs are in order. You may want to make a will, provide for a child or create a trust for someone who, from age or infirmity, cannot look after themselves.
Our task is to ensure your wishes with regard to your family and your property are carried out. Our team is highly skilled in these areas of law and sensitive to your needs. We have a wealth of knowledge and can help you whether the matter is simple or complex.
Wills
Everyone who cares about what happens to their family and their property should make a will. It is the only way you can ensure that your wishes are carried out. If you do not make a will the rules of intestacy come into play and the selection of your personal representatives and distribution of your estate will be governed by rules over which you have no control.
It is especially important for those living together who are not married to make a will to ensure that your property goes as your family would wish. Making a will is usually a straightforward procedure and carried out quickly at low cost.
Estate Planning
Only two things are certain in life – death and taxes. You are entitled to avoid tax (tax evasion is illegal) and making a will is a good time to organize your affairs to maximum advantage within the law. Sometimes lifetime gifts are appropriate but these too have tax implications.
Trusts
Trusts have always been a significant part of the work of the Private Client Department. They are not only useful for avoiding tax but are widely used to look after assets either for beneficiaries not able to look after themselves for reasons of age or infirmity, or where outright ownership among a number of people would be disadvantageous. They are often used to hold land or shares in family companies.
The setting up of a trust is a technical process and will have tax implications. We can give you advice based on our long experience and, if you wish, we can run and administer it for you.
We also advise beneficiaries and trustees of their legal duties and rights under trusts, and how to break trusts.
Examples of Private Client cases:
• Advising on the need for a will, and drafting wills
• Advising on all aspects of estate and tax planning
• Advising on the need for and execution of Lasting Powers of Attorney for both health & welfare and property & financial matters
• Advising on establishing a will trust and then acting as trustees of the same in order to ensure the correct financial management of the trust assets and liaising with the beneficiaries re: distributions
• Probate: acting as executors of deceased client’s wills and handling all matters connected to the collection and distribution of the relevant estates. Recent cases have involved advising on deeds of variation whereby the beneficiaries all agreed to alter the terms of the will to achieve a more inheritance tax efficient distribution to benefit the next generation
• We also advise where the deceased did not make a will and has therefore died “intestate”
• Advising long term cohabitees of the tactics and strategies to deploy when making financial plans for the future
• We specialise in dealing with elderly clients; as people grow older, their finances and assets can become more complex so we can support our clients to ensure their wishes are met
• We assist attorneys with legal advice so they can carry out their roles and responsibilities including checking care home contracts and advising on long term care funding
From straightforward debt recovery to complex international litigation and arbitration, our Litigation Department provides a highly personal and focused service.
Brooke Gordon
From start-up ventures to publicly quoted groups, our Corporate and Commercial Department provides a wide range of client focused legal expertise.
Brooke
Gordon
We act for a variety of commercial property clients both large and small, take care to understand their particular needs and aspirations.
Brooke
Gordon
Few areas of the law change as frequently as employment law. The increasing influence of the European Union has heightened the need for employers to keep up to date with legislation affecting the workplace.
Private Client
As the name suggests, this department is about people. It is not just about money and taxes, important though they are. The basic cycle of birth, marriage and death always continues. Each stage brings a change in your life and you should take stock and decide whether your legal affairs are in order. You may want to make a will, provide for a child or create a trust for someone who, from age or infirmity, cannot look after themselves.
Our task is to ensure your wishes with regard to your family and your property are carried out. Our team is highly skilled in these areas of law and sensitive to your needs. We have a wealth of knowledge and can help you whether the matter is simple or complex.
Wills
Everyone who cares about what happens to their family and their property should make a will. It is the only way you can ensure that your wishes are carried out. If you do not make a will the rules of intestacy come into play and the selection of your personal representatives and distribution of your estate will be governed by rules over which you have no control.
It is especially important for those living together who are not married to make a will to ensure that your property goes as your family would wish. Making a will is usually a straightforward procedure and carried out quickly at low cost.
Estate Planning
Only two things are certain in life – death and taxes. You are entitled to avoid tax (tax evasion is illegal) and making a will is a good time to organize your affairs to maximum advantage within the law. Sometimes lifetime gifts are appropriate but these too have tax implications.
Trusts
Trusts have always been a significant part of the work of the Private Client Department. They are not only useful for avoiding tax but are widely used to look after assets either for beneficiaries not able to look after themselves for reasons of age or infirmity, or where outright ownership among a number of people would be disadvantageous. They are often used to hold land or shares in family companies.
The setting up of a trust is a technical process and will have tax implications. We can give you advice based on our long experience and, if you wish, we can run and administer it for you.
We also advise beneficiaries and trustees of their legal duties and rights under trusts, and how to break trusts.
Examples of Private Client cases:
• Advising on the need for a will, and drafting wills
• Advising on all aspects of estate and tax planning
• Advising on the need for and execution of Lasting Powers of Attorney for both health & welfare and property & financial matters
• Advising on establishing a will trust and then acting as trustees of the same in order to ensure the correct financial management of the trust assets and liaising with the beneficiaries re: distributions
• Probate: acting as executors of deceased client’s wills and handling all matters connected to the collection and distribution of the relevant estates. Recent cases have involved advising on deeds of variation whereby the beneficiaries all agreed to alter the terms of the will to achieve a more inheritance tax efficient distribution to benefit the next generation
• We also advise where the deceased did not make a will and has therefore died “intestate”
• Advising long term cohabitees of the tactics and strategies to deploy when making financial plans for the future
• We specialise in dealing with elderly clients; as people grow older, their finances and assets can become more complex so we can support our clients to ensure their wishes are met
• We assist attorneys with legal advice so they can carry out their roles and responsibilities including checking care home contracts and advising on long term care funding
From straightforward debt recovery to complex international litigation and arbitration, our Litigation Department provides a highly personal and focused service.
From start-up ventures to publicly quoted groups, our Corporate and Commercial Department provides a wide range of client focused legal expertise.
We act for a variety of commercial property clients both large and small, take care to understand their particular needs and aspirations.
Few areas of the law change as frequently as employment law. The increasing influence of the European Union has heightened the need for employers to keep up to date with legislation affecting the workplace.