Trusts and Probate
We have extensive experience in the full range of trust and probate issues including both contentious and non-contentious matters. We provide pragmatic and commercial solutions to complex problems and disputes involving wills, trusts & probate.
Contact us on 0800 131 3355 to speak to our specialist team who can help ensure that your assets are protected. Alternatively, you can fill in our online enquiry form and we will get back to you at a time that is convenient for you.
At Pannone Corporate, our trust solicitors specialise in all manner of advice relating to both UK and offshore trusts.
We help our clients defend their rights as beneficiaries of trusts, protect their interests and ensure that any trust in which they have an interest is being correctly administered. Our depth of knowledge, experience and understanding in this area is unrivalled in the North West market.
How Our Trust Solicitors Can Help
We deal with the establishment and setting up of trusts on a day to day basis, drafting trust deeds, appointing assets out of trusts, bringing trusts to an end and changing trustees, all while trying to avoid situations which may lead to trust disputes. We also advise on the implications of divorce or bankruptcy in relation to trusts while setting up a trust.
- Advice for Trustees
- Dealing with an Offshore Trust
- Guidance for Vulnerable Beneficiaries
- Administration of Trusts
Here at Pannone Corporate, our team of will solicitors know that wills are very often at the bottom of the “to do” list. However, a well-drafted Will can ensure the smooth devolution of your assets to the next generation whilst, most importantly, avoiding will disputes or problems following your death.
As will solicitors we have many years experience drafting wills ensuring tax efficiency and meeting individual family objectives. Advice on how your will can achieve your objectives and deal with circumstances such as marriages, children from previous marriages and estranged family members is vital in avoiding problems for your beneficiaries in the future – especially if you want to avoid them dealing with contesting a will. Our will lawyers in Manchester can assist you in putting in place a structure which will enable you to look after beneficiaries as you wish, putting in place trust arrangements where necessary to avoid future will disputes. (more…)
- Drafting wills for clients with disabled/vulnerable beneficiaries;
- Setting up dual will structure for Indian domiciled client with significant assets in multiple jurisdictions;
- Working with lawyers in other jurisdictions to ensure coordinated approach;
- Will structuring for a business owner with children from previous marriages and ex-spouses;
- Drafting wills to minimise Inheritance Tax and prevent future disputes/claims in relation to the business.
The Pannone Corporate team of contentious probate solicitors in Manchester deal with the administration of complex estates, often involving family businesses and trusts. We advise executors, trustees and beneficiaries on their rights and duties and often act as trusted advisers to families with longstanding trusts.
Our contentious probate solicitors in Manchester have the knowledge and expertise to guide you through all issues that may occur as a result of a person’s death.
We also advise trustees holding shares in family businesses where a shareholder has died. This can involve guiding executors and/or remaining shareholders through the process of change in the ownership of a business resulting in an ultimate sale.
Our Recent Contested Probate Cases Include:
- Advising in relation to a dispute between two co-executors both appointed in relation to their mother’s estate, resolving dispute cost-effectively;
- Drafting a deed of variation to reorganise the estate of a person who died with a non-tax efficient will exposing the estate to excessive tax and an Inheritance Act claim by the surviving spouse;
- Winding up the estate of a high net-worth individual with assets in several jurisdictions and an ongoing business in the UK.
Contact us on 0800 131 3355 to speak to our specialist contentious probate solicitors who can help ensure that your assets are protected during the probate process. Alternatively, you can fill in our online enquiry form and we will get back to you at a time that is convenient for you.
- Determining the value of assets under dispute.
- Disputes between executors.
- Occasions to contest probate or challenge a will.
- Tax implications of a Will, whether a deed of variation of the terms of a will should be made to minimise Inheritance Tax.
