When you instruct Talbots Law we’ll be thorough in our investigation into your case and when there is a valid dispute we’ll help to build a strong claim and provide you with a clear plan to achieve your objectives. We appreciate that will disputes usually involve heated family arguments and we are here to support you with the emotional as well as the legal aspects of your litigation, in a sensitive manner.

Our solicitors encourage the use of alternative dispute resolution including mediation and experience shows that often this approach can achieve a time and cost-effective resolution for our clients, even in the most difficult of circumstances.

What can we help with?

Our team has extensive knowledge of all will and trust disputes including:

• Challenges to the validity of a will. This could be on the basis of mental capacity, where the deceased did not understand the terms of the will they were making – perhaps following a diagnosis of dementia. Wills can also be overturned on the basis that the person making the will was being coerced or forced to make the will in those terms or wills will be invalid where they have been forged.   
• Inheritance Act Claims. Even where a will is valid or the estate stands to be distributed in accordance with the Intestacy Rules, it is possible for certain family members to make a claim against the estate to increase their provision. The success of such claims depends on the claimant’s financial needs and resources among other factors.
• Claims against Executors. These can be bought where beneficiaries or creditors of the estate are unhappy with how it is being administered. In certain cases executors can be removed by the court and/or substituted when they pose a risk to the estate.   
• Caveats. We can help you obtain or prevent the issue of a grant of probate.
• Intestacy. Issues caused by the application of the intestacy rules where the deceased did not make a will.
• Enforcing promises. If the deceased made promises to you in relation to their assets during their lifetime and these are not reflected in their will or the Intestacy Rules.
• Financial deputyship. We can help you with concerns regarding a financial deputy, the Court of Protection or a statutory will.

If you wish to contest a will or trust or are an executor or trustee facing a will or trust dispute call Talbots Law today on 0800 118 1500 to speak to one of our specialist will disputes solicitors.