Fixed prices, in writing before I start, and they don’t change unless you ask me to do something different. No VAT is charged on any of my fees.
How I price
- Fixed fees, not hourly rates. You’ll know the total before any work begins.
- A written quote first. Nothing to pay for the quote, and no obligation to go ahead.
- No VAT. I’m not VAT registered, so the figure you see is the figure you pay.
- Government fees shown separately. They aren’t mine, and I don’t add anything to them.
Wills
- Individual Will: £285
- Paired Wills, for a couple: £435
Every Will includes a Will Commentary, a plain-English explanation written alongside the legal document, so your family understands what you intended and why. It gives them your reasons in your own words, which is the thing most often missing when a Will is later questioned.
Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Health and welfare: £295
- Property and financial affairs: £295
Most people put both in place together. Registration with the Office of the Public Guardian takes eight to ten weeks if there are no mistakes in the application. Without a registered power of attorney your family has to apply to the Court of Protection instead, which costs more, takes considerably longer, carries an annual supervision fee for as long as it lasts, and ends with a deputy the court appoints rather than the person you would have chosen.
Property
- Severance of tenancy: £290
Severance of tenancy changes how you own your property, from joint ownership to tenants in common. It determines the tax position, and whether a share reaches your children rather than a future spouse’s family.
Trusts
Trust work runs from £405 to £900 depending on which trust it is, and most fall between £445 and £540. Your exact figure is in your written plan, fixed, before anything begins.
I’ve deliberately not put a menu of trusts here. Which one suits a situation, if any does, is a decision that comes out of your report and our conversation, not something to pick off a list. For most families the honest answer is that none of them is needed, and I’d rather tell you that than sell you one.
Storage and reviews
- Will storage, per year: £39
- Review of an existing plan: £50
If you already have a Will, the Clarity Report works as a comparison. It tells you what I’d suggest for a situation like yours, which you can hold against what you’ve actually got. If the two look much the same, you can stop there. That’s a perfectly good outcome and it hasn’t cost you anything.
If they look different, there are two ways forward and you can take either.
Have it reviewed
I read your actual documents: the Will, the powers of attorney, any trust. Then I tell you what has changed since they were written and whether they still do the job. That’s £50, because reading someone else’s paperwork properly takes real time, and it comes off anything you go on to ask me to do within the following twelve months. For most people this is the cheaper route overall: it’s there for anyone who would rather mend what they have than replace it.
Or start again
If you’d rather begin from scratch, book the free consultation and we’ll do exactly that, no review, no charge for the conversation.
Storage is optional. Your Will is exactly as valid kept at home, and you can ask for it back at any time, at no charge. If I ever retire or stop practising, I’ll write to you first and return it. It stays your document, held by me for convenience and nothing else.
Government fees
These aren’t my fees. I show them so you can see the full cost of what you’re doing, and I don’t add anything to them.
- Office of the Public Guardian, to register each power of attorney: £92 each
- HM Land Registry, to record a severance of tenancy: no fee
Before you get a price
I can’t price your situation properly before I understand it, and I won’t pretend otherwise. Start with the Clarity Report: eleven questions, about three minutes, and it doesn’t ask who you are. If there’s a conversation worth having, it’s half an hour and it’s free. Your written plan follows from there, with a fixed price against every part of it and the things I don’t think you need marked as such.
Your right to change your mind
Because we’ll almost always agree the work by video call, or occasionally at your home, you have fourteen days to cancel and get a full refund. You’ll get that in writing before anything starts.
If you’d like me to begin inside those fourteen days, which most people do because something has usually prompted them, I’ll ask you to confirm that first. You keep the right to cancel, and you’d then pay only for the work already done.