Older Clients

Some legal issues arise more for older clients than others, and on occasion may raise specific problems, such as failing capacity, or urgency due to ill-health. We always act as promptly as possible and are happy to see clients at home or in hospital or a care home if you have mobility issues (without extra charge, provided you live within a reasonable local distance from Salisbury). We can advise on these issues:

• Powers of attorney (creation and registration and advice for attorneys)
• Wills and codicils
• Inheritance tax planning
• Lifetime gifts
• Probate and estate administration and deeds of variation
• Living wills and advance directives
• Declarations of trust for jointly owned property
• Court of protection applications to appoint deputies/make statutory gifts or wills care
• Home fee and asset protection planning / deprivation of assets
• Care home contracts
• Equity release documents (but we are not authorised to select products for you)
• Trusts

The cost of many of these documents is charged on a fixed fee basis.