Our expert team will explain and professionally guide you through the process in a friendly and sympathetic way, offering practical advice and pragmatic solutions. Contentious Probate describes a wide range of specialist work in the following areas:
Will challenges, Inheritance Act Claims, Trust Disputes, Contentious Probate and Estate Administration, Professional Negligence, Challenging Lifetime Gifts, Financial Abuse, Statutory Will Disputes and Issues with Lasting Powers of Attorney or Deputyships.
We work closely with the firm’s highly regarded Private Client team to deliver advice and expertise to trustees/executors, individuals and charities across a wide range of trust and Will/estate disputes.
We also advise executors beneficiaries and family members on claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family & Dependants) Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”).
If you find yourself in this situation, our specialist Contentious Probate team has considerable expertise and experience in pursuing such claims. The majority of such claims are ultimately resolved without the matter proceeding to trial, although we do prepare and proceed on the assumption that the matter may end up in Court.