Jyoti is a now member of our Probate Team. She joined us from our Family Department where she was a very experienced family solicitor and an accredited specialist with Resolution and also a trained mediator. She is now using these people skills to develop our Private Client Department.
Jyoti deals with all areas for Private Clients including Wills, the Administration of Estates, Lasting Powers of Attorney and deals with applications to the Court of Protection for the appointment of Deputies. She is happy to attend on home and hospital visits to the elderly and infirm and deals with the general financial affairs of the firm’s elderly clients.
When someone passes away, banks and building societies will typically freeze their accounts and if the balance in the account is significant, they will require an official document known as a Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration before most of the money can be released. This process can take months. However, some of Britain’s…
The Government has thankfully abandoned plans to increase the probate fees which would have seen a rise from the current fixed fee of £155 (with a solicitor) or £255 to a sliding scale of up to £6000 depending on the size of the state. Several organisations including the Law Society vigorously campaigned against the proposed…
