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03. Trusts

Protect what you pass on.

Think of a Trust as a safe for your assets: what's inside reaches the people you intend — not sideways into a new marriage, a divorce, or a care assessment.

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The risks a well-built Trust guards against

The costs of Probate

Assets held in trust can pass directly to beneficiaries without a Grant of Probate.

Sideways disinheritance

Your children inherit what you intend — even if a surviving partner later remarries.

Your Vulnerability

Assets are safeguarded from a problematic marriage, debt, or unreliable influence.

Possible

Care fees

Keeps control of your assets with your family, managed under the right legal structure.

Our Trust services

Lifetime Protection Trusts

Settle assets into trust during your lifetime, with access to capital and income for as long as you need it.

Vulnerable Beneficiary Planning

Trusts designed around the needs of a vulnerable child or adult, including care funding provisions.

Inheritance Tax Planning

The right structure, put in place early, can substantially reduce what your estate pays to HMRC.

Common Myths, Busted

"Trusts are only for the very wealthy."​​​​​​

​✓ From protecting a family home from care fees to keeping an inheritance in the bloodline, Trusts do real work for ordinary estates too.

Legacy Connect

A plan isn't finished the day it's signed.

Legacy Connect is our ongoing membership: your documents stored securely, your plan reviewed as life changes, and our team on hand should your family ever need to act on it.

✓ Secure physical storage for your Will, LPAs and Trust documents

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✓ Regular plan reviews as your circumstances change

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✓ Support for your family through probate, when the time comes

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✓ Online access to our secure portal to view your documents any time

Let's put the right Will in place.

A no-obligation first meeting, on your terms — fixed fees agreed up front.

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