Services
Buying and selling your home
Buying and selling your home is usually the biggest financial commitment anyone makes. We can act for you and advise you with:
We know how important it is to keep you informed, work efficiently and cost-effectively without cutting corners, to keep your conveyance on track, while ensuring that you suffer the minimum of stress.
With on-line access to the Land Registry and for searches, we are able to reduce the time it can take to progress these types of transaction.
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Family: Divorce/Separation, Children
Divorce from your spouse, or separation from your partner is a difficult and stressful time, both for the couple themselves and for their children. We can advise you, and represent you in:
contact and residence
parental responsibility
maintenance
including your home
pension sharing
Our partner, who specialises in family law is Caroline Denham, who holds the highly regarded Resolution/SFLA accreditation in Childrens Law, and Advanced Financial Provision.
Whether you are married to your spouse, a civil partner, have been living together, and/or have children together, we will help you through the complexities of the legal issues. We will encourage an early, cost-effective and fair resolution by negotiation whenever possible, thereby minimising conflict and hostility.
If you do have to litigate, we will do so efficiently and robustly, with the aim of producing a positive outcome to protect and secure yours, and your children's future interests while, at the same time, not losing sight of the opportunity to continue to negotiate.
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Wills, Probate, Tax Planning, the Elderly
You will want to make sure that you have made sensible provision for the future, avoiding problems for your loved ones and minimising tax liabilities
Wills and Tax Planning
There are common, mistaken, beliefs about 'next of kin' and rights of inheritance, including the existence of 'common law' spouses that can be dreadfully wrong and cause families real difficulties at a sad and distressing time following a death. This applies particularly when people live together and are not married, or if someone We can ensure your estate passes as you wish, not as the law dictates on intestacy, but to do this you need a properly drafted will by a suitably qualified expert.
We also advise on tax-planning for your estate to minimise, or even eliminate, the need to pay inheritance tax. Trusts can be helpful in achieving your aim, and we can advise on their use, and prepare them for you.
The Elderly:
We give help and advice to, and about, the elderly. We can prepare Lasting Powers of Attorney which appoint a person or persons you trust to deal with your property and affairs if ever you become incapable of doing this. If you have to look after the affairs, and make arrangements, for an elderly relative, we can also help you. If it becomes necessary, we can assist with applications to the Court of Protection.
Help when someone has died
When there is a death, someone has to attend to the winding up of their estate. Who this is depends on whether the person who has died has left a will, or not. At a sad and distressing time, this can place a considerable burden on people who have been recently bereaved. We can obtain Probate (if there is a will), or Letters of Administration (where there is no will), collect in the estate, ensure any debts are paid; and distribute the estate either according to the deceased person's will, or by the rules of intestacy.
Peter Medlicott who is the senior partner based in Knighton, and Robin Wayne who is the partner in this department in Bishops Castle both have considerable experience with this type of work, and Robin is a member of the Society of Estate and Trust Practitioners.
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Business, Commercial and Agricultural
Whether you are starting up in business, or have an existing enterprise, we can assist with buying and selling businesses, leasing or buying premises e.g. shops, offices, licensed premises.
We are members of the Country Landowners and Business Association, and the Agricultural Law Association. As a business ourselves, we are committed to and believe in the need to support and encourage local businesses in a rural environment. We can advise you whether you are buying and selling land, renting or leasing, looking at the potential for development or diversification and help you follow these through to fruition.
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General Litigation
We can advise with civil disputes, or property/neighbour disagreements. If you are involved in a more complex matter, or something that requires particularly specialist advice, we have links with Manchester-based firm Pannone Llp, and the Connect2Law group of firms.
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