Making things easier for your family after you're gone

Probate Guarantee

Easy access to legal help at controlled cost.

Our Probate Guarantee gives your family the confidence to obtain the legal advice and representation they will need after your death - without worrying about costs getting out of control.

With our Probate Guarantee, your family can be represented by our colleagues at ACSL Ltd, solicitors, for half of the normal hourly rate. And that’s not all – the overall cost of ACSL’s work is capped at 1.5% of the value of your estate, no matter how much work is needed to administer your estate.

This guarantees that your beneficiaries will have at least 98.5% of the estate available to inherit after solicitors’ fees, to distribute or to place into the trusts created in your will.

This will be particularly useful for your family when the government introduces a massive, totally arbitrary change to the fees charged by Probate Registries for issuing Grants of Probate. The cost of administering an estate is about to rise significantly as a result of this change, so the ability to control the expense of administering your estate with discounted and capped solicitors’ costs will be a godsend for your family.

Many families try to administer estates on their own without legal help, for fear of the cost of using a solicitor. As a result, they sometimes run into difficulties and end up incurring more expense bringing in solicitors to get them out of trouble. By making use of the Probate Guarantee, you can make sure your family have the support they need to administer your estate properly from the outset, without having to worry about uncontrolled solicitors’ fees.

The cost of a Probate Guarantee is £965 if you are single and £1450 if you are a couple.
The Probate Guarantee is also included with our Comprehensive Estate Plan.

"We decided to seek advice about estate planning because we wanted to understand how to efficiently protect our assets and pass them safely to our children and grandchildren. We also wanted to put as much help in place for our family as possible, so as to make things as easy as possible for them when the time comes. We liked Gina’s patient and diligent manner in answering our questions and guiding us to the right solutions. Gina explained everything to us with great clarity, making concepts we were unfamiliar with accessible and clear. We particularly liked the fact that Gina came to see us in our own home without our having to make a special request; this is just the way she works. It was so much easier for us to relax and talk freely in the comfort and privacy of our home. Having put the right estate plan in place we feel that we have ticked a big box. This was something we knew we had to get round to. Now it is done and sorted and we don't have to worry about it anymore. We have also gained a clear understanding of the measures that have been put in place and why they are important. "

Matt & Betty R

Probate Guarantee

Family Trust Deed

Family Trust Will

Memorandum of Wishes

Deed of Severance

Advance Directive, or Living Will

Storing your Will

Updating your Will

Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare

Lasting Power of Attorney for Property and Financial Affairs