Probate Advisory Service – lots of help or a little – now the Assisted Probate Service.
Example savings: Quoted £8,800 for full service – after a chat, they paid £599 using the assisted service – this was several years ago. Big estate: quoted: £120,000 – reduced to £54,000 (full service)/ Probate Quotes: How much can we save you? It costs nothing to find out.
Many of our enquirers only need the Assisted Probate Service we helped to design, rather than a far more costly full service (though we can usually help you make substantial savings on that if need be).With the probate advisory service, clients can pick and choose what they wish to do, and what our probate advisory service is to do for them. Clients can also change their minds if they find that a particular task is more than they can cope with!For example, do you want to pay a professional (even at the Assisted Probate Service / Probate Advisory Services modest fees) to do the following?
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- Register the death and obtain multiple death certificates.
- Notify friends, family, banks, investment house etc.
- Arrange funeral notice.
- Search for unrecorded savings.
- Arrange mail redirection.
- Arrange, pay for and attend the funeral.
- Write off asking for up to date balances on all accounts.
- Keep creditors at bay during the probate process. Too many family executors are forced to pay debts themselves when they don’t need to.
- Ensure any property is secured and that the insurance remains in force.
- Secure valuable items.
- Arrange for the thoughtful clearance and sale of property.
- Sort out Inheritance Tax and any other taxes.
- Advertise in the local paper and London Gazette and anywhere else relevant to ensure there are no unpaid debts which the executor could become personally liable for.
Our probate advisory service can take care of as many or as few of these and the dozens of other issues which may arise from the time of death onwards. Some of these things are very simple, some can be complex. Around 7 in 10 people chose to pass the whole job onto a bank or solicitor – or us. Apart from the fact that our Probate Advisory Service costs a great deal less per hour, why would you wish to pay £200 to £500 an hour for the many simple jobs involved? Not to mention the possibility of thousands of pound “bunce” for the “responsibility allowance” which can be as much as 1.8% of the GROSS value of the estate (so you pay it on liabilities as well as assets) which can dwarf the fees charged for the actual work.How much additional work is required to deal with a £100,000 bank account rather than a £100 one? Is the additional responsibility worth as much as £1,800? Or, to be totally fair, taking off the responsibility allowance for the £100 (£1.80) £1,798.20 for all the extra responsibility!!Our probate advisory service fits in with what you want, and you can speak to the individuals actually handling your case easily. No being fobbed off by secretaries. Our probate advisory service secretaries can usually help anyway!
To contact our Probate Advisory Service, go HERE.
(Free Guide to what to do on death by The Probate Department Ltd which is NOT the Probate Registry nor part of HMCTS.)