{"id":259,"date":"2026-03-19T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:36:46","slug":"wills-probate-estate-administration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/practice-areas\/wills-probate-estate-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLS, PROBATE &#038; ESTATE ADMINISTRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WILLS, PROBATE &amp; ESTATE ADMINISTRATION<\/strong>We would advise and draft your Will ( including where necessary Trusts which can take several different types of will trusts which may form part of your will. These could include:\n<p><strong>Life interest trusts<\/strong>, where a beneficiary may live in a property owned by the trust, or receive income from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flexible life interest trusts<\/strong>, where trustees are given the power to take capital from the trust during their lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discretionary trusts<\/strong>\u00a0can be more flexible by allowing appointed Trustees to manage your estate and decide who to distribute it out to and when.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bereaved minor trusts<\/strong>\u00a0can be set up for the child to inherit only when they turn 18, and similarly, an 18-25 trust delays the age a child can inherit).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obtaining a grant of probate<\/li>\n<li>Providing beneficiaries with advice on taxation matters<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with legacies to minors<\/li>\n<li>Protecting assets from possible creditors and taxation<\/li>\n<li>Litigation (contesting a will)<\/li>\n<li>Estate administration (probate\/intestacy)<\/li>\n<li>Writing or updating a will<\/li>\n<li>Living wills, advice representation on all mental capacity matters<\/li>\n<li>Mirror wills<\/li>\n<li>Lasting Powers of Attorney<\/li>\n<li>Family break up wills<\/li>\n<li>Making a will and children<\/li>\n<li>Making a will \u2013 trust and trustees<\/li>\n<li>Wills \u2013 donating to charity<\/li>\n<li>Wills tenants in common<\/li>\n<li>Statutory wills and trusts<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with an estate<\/li>\n<li>Applications to the Court of Protection<\/li>\n<li>Compensation protection services (trusts)<\/li>\n<li>Elderly and vulnerable care (for people concerned about care home fees and protecting their inheritance)<\/li>\n<li>International wills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] WILLS, PROBATE &amp; ESTATE ADMINISTRATIONWe would advise and draft your Will ( including where necessary Trusts which can take several different types of will trusts which may form part of your will. These could include: Life interest trusts, where a beneficiary may live in a property owned by the trust, or receive income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","grve-entry-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdtettehchambers.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}