our services and fees
our services and fees
Welcome to Brooks Wills.
Providing expert will writing services in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, and surrounding areas.
our services and fees
Welcome to Brooks Wills.
Providing expert will writing services in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, and surrounding areas.
WHAT DOES BROOKS LEGAL DO?
Brooks Legal and Brooks Wills provide a service tailored to their clients. We will come to you in the comfort of your own home and take your instructions. We operate mainly in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and the other surrounding towns. But we have clients as far away as Oxford and Bath.
While taking your instructions we will be able to advise you on the best courses of action to assure your wishes are met. We will give you a quote once the instructions are taken. In a simple will, this would be the straightforward price quoted below. However if things are more complex, costs will likely go up. For example it may be necessary to draft a trust if there are children from previous relationships.
We will never sell you a product that we don’t understand to be absolutely necessary to appropriately carry out your wishes.
You are also free to refuse our advice, but we may ask you to sign a disclaimer.
We will then return to our office and draft your will. Once we have drafted your will, we will send you the draft for your approval. Once you have approved the draft we will print and bind the document on premium quality durable paper. We will then contact you in order to set another appointment to sign it off. This should take 2 weeks from instructions, unless otherwise stated. The process is similar for a lasting power of attorney. However, due to the nature of the document there may be a need for a third meet. But our prices are related to the documents, not how many appointments occur.
Why to our home?
We can take your instructions via video conference, if you would prefer. But in some circumstances it wouldn’t be appropriate. During the Covid-19 pandemic, it became commonplace to use video conference software. We had no choice at the time. Now we do. We need to know that we are taking your instructions and not someone else’s and you’re not being forced or coerced. We also need to know that you know what you are doing and you’re of sound mind. It is important to both your security and our integrity to assure this. It is also important for you to know that a real person is dealing with your will and not just a voice on the end of a phone or a computer program built into a website. For these reasons we prefer to meet face to face.
HOW WILL YOU SEND ME THE DRAFT?
We will typically send you drafts for approval via an email link. This link will be password protected. You will be able to approve or reject the document via this link. We are happy to discuss modifications to your instructions or queries about the drafts over the phone, provided that we have already had the opportunity to meet face to face. Typically we won’t need to meet face to face again until the time comes to sign the will.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
Single Will
£300
Mutual Wills
£500
A single document for a single person.
Two matching documents for a couple. Ideal for a couple with children that want all their assets to go to their surviving partner.
Single Will
£300
A single document for a single person.
Mutual Wills
£500
Two matching documents for a couple. Ideal for a couple with children that want all their assets to go to their surviving partner.
LPA
£200
Lasting Powers of Attorney. Giving someone you trust control of your welfare or finances if you lost mental capacity.
Tenancy Severance
£60
Severance of joint tenancy. A change to the way you own jointly held property. The change enables joint beneficial tenants to gift their share of the property in their will.
Life Interest Trust
£150
A trust drafted into a will which passes an asset – typically a home – to beneficiaries but allows someone else to use the asset during their lifetime.
Discretionary Trust
£200
A trust drafted into a will which allows the trustees to decide when any of a group of named beneficiaries can inherit.
Deputyship
£1100
An application to the Court of Protection to take control of someone’s affairs if they lost capacity before making an LPA.
Document Storage
£40
Permanent and secure storage for your will or other documents until they are needed. Price is per year, payable by direct debit.
LPA
£200
Tenancy Severance
£60
Lasting Powers of Attorney. Giving someone you trust control of your welfare or finances if you lost mental capacity.
Severance of joint tenancy. A change to the way you own jointly held property. The change enables joint beneficial tenants to gift their share of the property in their will.
Life Interest Trust
£150
Discretionary Trust
£200
A trust drafted into a will which passes an asset – typically a home – to beneficiaries but allows someone else to use the asset during their lifetime.
A trust drafted into a will which allows the trustees to decide when any of a group of named beneficiaries can inherit.
Deputyship
£1100
Document Storage
£40
An application to the Court of Protection to take control of someone’s affairs if they lost capacity before making an LPA.
Permanent and secure storage for your will or other documents until they are needed. Price is per year, payable by direct debit.