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Richard Woodward & Associates

Church View House, 17 Church View, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 2BB
Telephone: St Neots 01480 290060 | Bedford 01234 604042 | Hitchin 01462 506042 | Peterborough 01733 590131

From our offices in the historic Cambridgeshire market town of St Neots we will visit you at home and give you the best service that you could find anywhere. We will carefully listen to your situation and explain your options, we have over 25 years joint Will writing and estate planning experience and we are both members of the 'Master Guild of Will Writers' so please contact us with confidence, thanks Richard & Iain.

Will Writing Specialists

Free no obligation home visits in these towns and surrounding villages:
Peterborough Hitchin Northampton Huntingdon Sandy Biggleswade Henlow Shefford Arlesey
Bedford Cambridge St Ives Rushden Baldock Stevenage Royston Papworth Ampthill & Flitwick

Our Fixed Prices

Single Standard Wills £85 each    |    Mirrored Standard Wills £150 the pair
Specialist Trust Wills £175 each    |    Protective Property Trust Wills £250 the pair
2 Lasting Powers of Attorney £375 per person for both Property & Finance + Health & Welfare
Fixed Fee Probate - Please Ask    |    Family Trusts - Please Ask    |    Property 1st Registration - Please Ask
Severance of Joint Tenancy £50
Contentious Probate & Disputes over a Will - Please Ask
(The Government fees to register each 'Lasting Powers of Attorney' are £82)
(The cost of your Lasting Power of Attorney includes us acting as your Certificate Provider)

10 reasons why you should use Richard Woodward & Associates.

Friendly confidential service.
Over 25 years Experience - Local well established business.
Free home visits - Member of the Master Guild of Will Writers.
Draft documents provided for your approval within 7 days.
Wills thermally bound in protective covers - Access to Specialist areas of the Law.
Thousands of local customers - Secure fire proof storage.

Will writing is a fascinating subject and the complexities of some family structures make it very interesting, so its fair to say some Wills are simple and some complex, these are some but not all of the Specialist types of Will we write in addition to the more Standard Wills.

Mutual Wills

These Wills when 2 people make similar Wills where both make a declaration within the Will that they both agree that the content of the Wills shall not be changed or altered during their lifetime unless they both agree to do so.

Protective Property Trust Wills

With a ‘Lifetime Interest’ a pair of ‘Protective Property Trust Wills’ offer the most usual form of protection against losing assets to pay for any future ‘Care Home Fees’ Quite simply instead of a spouse leaving their homes to each other on the 1st death the first person to die’s share of the property goes into a ‘Property Trust’ the ultimate beneficiaries are normally the children. This protects the dead persons 50% of the home. The surviving spouse can remain living in the property or move in the future if required.
Please see the video about 'Long Term Care' towards the bottom of this Page.

A Right to Occupy Will

This gives you the ability to give a spouse, partner, family member or friend the right to remain living in your property for a stated period of time or their lifetime if you die. Or if you wish you can include that the trust ends if they remarry or cohabitate as husband and wife with another, the trust can then be ended and the property then passes to your chosen beneficiaries.

A Discretionary Trust Will

These Wills can be used for various scenarios, the Trust fund (what you leave in it) is controlled by the trustees you appoint, they hold the money and use it at their discretion to the benefit of the beneficiary or multiple beneficiaries. Situations where you may use this type of will include;

Setting up a Trust fund for a disabled person
Setting up a Trust fund to protect a spendthrift child
Setting up a Trust fund for a bankrupt

With this type of Will you would write a personal letter to your Trustees called an 'Expression of Wishes' this letter would be a 'guide' but only a guide to your trustees as to how you would wish them to act on your behalf after your death.

A Flexible Life Interest Trust Will (FLIT)

This Will is used to give a spouse income from your estate for the rest of their life but ultimately your beneficiaries (normally your children) benefit from the capital, this is a very simple explanation but this type of Will is sometimes called the 'Rolls Royce' of Wills because of its flexibility and the advantages it has from an inheritance tax point of view and protection of your money from care fees and the future marriage of a spouse.

Multi Trust Wills

We can also write Wills that have many specialist trusts within it, for example it could have all of the above mentioned specialist trusts within it, however complicated you think your situation is, multiple families, multiple properties etc we can deal with it.

Secure Will Storage.

We offer secure Will and document storage in an easy access
fire proof vault in Lurke Street, Bedford in conjunction with a leading Bedford Law partnership.

Monthly special offer until 31/8/2018

This is a very straight forward offer, we will write your 'Wills' and 'Lasting Powers of Attorney' 'completely free' when you arrange a pre-paid funeral plan with us with either SAFE HANDS or GOLDEN LEAVES. Your funeral can be paid in full or instalments and allocated to the funeral director of your choice in nearly 100% of cases, available locally and nationwide,

Simply go to the funeral plan providers website, choose your plan, come back to us to place it through our agency with them and you get your Wills & LPAs fully completed, checked and sent for registration this offer includes our guidance as required with free home visit.

Our home visits are completely free and without obligation and of course are totally confidential.

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Home visits 7 days a week, 10am - 7pm.