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Welcome. Convenient Wills is a home visit will writing service.
We provide Last Will and Testaments (“Wills) and Lasting Powers of Attorney (“LPA”) and other services to the good people of Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire - particulalry the residents of Barlaston, Blythe Bridge, Burslem, Cheadle, Fenton, Hanley, Kidsgrove, Longton, Newcastle under Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent, Stone, Talke, Alsager, Congleton, Crewe, Holmes Chapel, Nantwich, Sandbach; and Market Drayton. We will travel further afield were required.
As a home visit service we come to you, saving you the hassle and inconvenience of travelling to us.
We conduct meetings in the morning, afternoon, and evening - whenever is convenient to you - so removing the need for you to defer making your Will any longer because you can’t find the time.
We are based in Newcastle under Lyme, and have been drafting Wills for 20+ years.
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- Unique selling points of our services
- What a professionally drafted Will can do
- What is an LPA
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Choosing your Will Writer
Selecting a will writer is not an easy task - many people make their choice following a recommendation by a friend: 80%+ of our business comes from personal recommendation.
Others trawl the Internet - but each website often says much the same as any other, with the only difference being the prices when these are shown. We, however, are a little different.
Convenient Will has been providing its services since 2004, and over that time we have come to realise that our services provide features that others often do not. We are not saying the following list of features/characteristics are totally unique to us but that while the majority of will-writers (be they solicitors or home-visit will writers) provide many of the following features very few provide ALL of the features we offer - and especially at our price point.
Unique Selling Points of our Will-drafting & LPA-making services
Our home-visit LPA & Will services include the following features:
A. Meetings can be held in the morning, afternoon, evening, after work, after the children have gone to bed, and even on a Saturday. In short: whenever it is convenient for you.
B. We come to your home [or your workplace or a hospital ward if preferred] to take your instructions Many of our clients say how they find this arrangement less stressful than having to travel to a solicitor’s or will-writer’s office.
C. I will use my many years of experience to guide you through all the areas you need to consider - using a friendly, non-technical, jargon-free language that you will easily understand. You will then be able to make informed decisions.
- This is a clear benefit over using an on-
line service where you must undertake the research yourself to determine what you should be considering. - We will advise you on how your Will can be used to distribute your estate exactly as you want.
D. Further, the clauses in your Will are of a modern style so you and your executors can easily understand them.
E. Our advice is holistic. When taking your instructions we will explain how your choices could impact on other aspects of estate planning e.g. taxation and LPA operation.
F. Our charges are transparent - you can find our most frequently requested services listed on this website. Further, we have a comparatively simple charging structure when compared to most of our competitors e.g. we have one price for a Will irrespective of how complicated it is.
- Note: Those of our competitors who do display their prices on their website usually quote for a ‘simple’ Will and then list additional fees if the Will is to include [say] a trust (e.g. life interest/property protection/discretionary/disabled person’s trust -
typically costs £200 to £600 more). - Some Will-
Writers even charge extra for the inclusion of a simple children’s trust or the inclusion of multiple gifts in a Will. And they may also charge for severing the tenancy of your property, and/or overseeing the signing of your Will. - All these features are included in the ‘one’ price we quote.
- We do not use loss-
leader marketing to temp you to choose us (‘Loss- leader marketing’ is where a seller offers a service at a loss but then upsells additional services from which they can make a far greater profit. The Internet is full of people using this technique - often advertising Wills for £25 or less.
G. We will draft any required side letter needed to support your Will for you and at no extra cost (except where the estate is worth £1M+ and complex).
H. We supply draft Wills and LPA summaries for your perusal and checking prior to printing off your master documents. This gives you time to reflect upon (and change if required) your original instructions.
- Our Wills are bound. They contain a number of security features that make them very difficult to successfully tamper with.
- Our Wills and LPAs are printed on high quality paper.
- Note: One of the drawbacks to using the Government’s online LPA service is that you will need to print off the LPAs yourself.
I. We personally oversee the LPA & Will signing: This means that we can better defend your Will should it ever be challenged, and ensure your LPA documentation is signed correctly.
- Some Will-
writers send out signing instructions with their master documents and expect their client to follow those instructions. - If you are making your LPAs I will act as: your certificate provider.
These are just some of the reasons why our clients choose us, Convenient Wills, to make their legal documents for them.
What is a Will and what can a Will do?
In our experience most people know a Will to be a document that sets out how a person’s estate is to be distributed on the death of the testator. Its technical requirements [to make it a legal document] are less well known, and what a professionally drafted Will can achieve is lesser known still.
If you use our services we will explain to you what a Will is, and what a professionally drafted Will can achieve - including reducing a potential inheritance tax liability, avoiding disinheritance of your children/beneficiaries, protecting assets from being used to fund the long term care costs of your surviving spouse or partner, protecting a beneficiary’s inheritance when they are bankrupt or going through a divorce or are severely disabled, and more. And if you are a business owner we will discuss business succession planning. We will then determine if any of these points are of importance to you, and if so then draft your Will(s) accordingly.
As a result we reduce significantly the pre-meeting research required by you to a minimum..
In short, we are comprehensive - a statement frequently confirmed verbally by many of our clients who had previously made a Will with a solicitor or will-writer, and backed up by inspection of their earlier Will.
What is an LPA?
Awareness of the need for having LPAs is increasing.
In case you are unaware of them an Lasting Power of Attorney (to give them their full title) is a paper-based document that sets out who is to make decisions for you should you ever be unable to make a decision for yourself due [say] to lack of mental capacity. There are two types: LPA Health and Welfare and LPA - Property & Financial affairs.
If you use our services we will explain these documents to you in detail, and show why they are so important to have.
Why delay? Book an appointment today.
We would like to help you make your Will(s) and LPA(s).
Are you are ready to proceed? If ‘yes’ then simply hit the ‘Get in Touch’ button to the left to reveal how to contact us in the first instance.
If you simply want further information please don’t hesitate to contact us. Either way, we look forward to hearing from you.
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