22 THE GOOD LIFE SEPTEMBER 2014 Private client
Give your family peace of mind with the finest legal services
The Good Life recommends:
• Cripps: Offering a wide range of services, Cripps works hard to understand where you are today and where you want to get to. Te company’s services include advice about tax; advice for the vulnerable, their families and carers; agriculture and estates, assistance with powers of attorney; dealing with probate and estate administration, divorce and family issues; help with wills and trusts; residential property advice; and support for the elderly. Cripps puts together the right team for you with the best mix of experience and skills and makes the relationship effective and stress- free. Clear communication is vital so the team can make sure you always know what’s going on and how much it’s going to cost. With more than 300 people working across four offices in the South East and London, Cripps offers a highly personal service culture.
www.cripps.co.uk
• Hodders Law: With dedication, commitment and a personal yet professional approach to all personal matters, including: bereavement services, lifetime planning, family law, wills, adoption and divorce, Hodders Law solicitors are specialists in their chosen areas of law. Tey’ll guide you through
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what can oſten be difficult times so that your personal matter is in the best possible legal hands, from start to finish. Hodders Law’s wills, trusts and probate solicitors are able to apply their expert knowledge to bereavement services, which means you can rest assured that your loved ones’ legacy is in good hands. It means that our family law solicitors have the skills to set your mind at ease, whether dealing with adoption, bereavement services, wills, lifetime planing, family law or divorce.
www.hodders.co.uk
• Birkett Long LLP: New opportunities, issues and challenges arise when our lives change. Birkett Long understands this because the company faces the same opportunities and challenges in their own lives. Birkett Long provides clear advice and guidance on: all family law issues including cohabitation, marriage, civil partnership, children, relationship breakdown and divorce; looking aſter loved ones through a will, a trust or tax planning; buying and selling property; financial planning for every life stage whether
young or old, single or in a relationship,
working or retired; and obtaining redress if you are injured through no fault of your own. Birkett Long also offers clients independent financial advice. Getting the right advice on your financial position and objectives, both current and future,
is essential. So whether
you’re looking for advice on your investments, pensions and mortgages or perhaps more specific help regarding annuity rates, inheritance tax planning or endowments, Birkett Long can help.
www.birkettlong.co.uk
Have you planned for peace of mind? Estate planning, wills, trusts & probate services
Will Services: If you’re of the 70% of people in the UK without a will you can’t guarantee your assets will be passed on to those who you wish to inherit.
Trusts: Tis fund contains assets controlled by a third party. It can help you mitigate tax and provide for vulnerable family members.
Probate Services: We understand that dealing with the affairs of a love one aſter death can be a distressing time. Our team can assist executors if there’s a will and also advise who should deal with the administration if there’s no will. We can guide you through the process from start to finish.
Caring For The Elderly Who will deal with your financial matters and other affairs if you become unable to manage
them yourself? Tere are alternative options to assist with day-to-day living.
Lasting powers of attorney and deputyships: We can arrange two types to deal with: Property and financial affairs: For example, your bank account and your bills. Health and Welfare: For example, provision of community care, diet and dress (subject to the restrictions of
the Mental Capacity
Act 2005). Have things gone too far? Don’t panic we
can still help. We can also advise and help you apply for a deputyship. Deputyships:A deputyship is
the authority
given by the Office of Public Guardian and Court of Protection to look aſter the affairs of a person who does not have the capacity to look aſter their affairs themselves.
If you’re of the 70% of people in the UK without a will you can’t guarantee your assets will be passed on to those who you wish to inherit
Hodders Law can be found at Hanover Sq, Battersea, Harlesden, Harrow, Wembley, London T: 08442 640 290 E:
property@hodders.co.uk
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