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The plans · wills, trusts & powers of attorney
The Estate PlansMost people don’t want a will. They want the whole thing handled — once, properly, by someone who will still be there if it is ever tested.
So the estate work here is offered as a plan, not a document order. Your trust, your wills, your lasting powers of attorney and your letters of wishes are prepared together, in one engagement, by the barrister who would defend the structure if it were ever challenged — then explained to you in plain English and signed in a single conference. Every document can still be instructed on its own; the plans simply do the whole job at once, and for most families they are better value. All fees below are plus VAT. Most chosen
The Family Estate Plan£4,250
For a homeowning couple — often 55 to 75, sometimes with children from more than one marriage — who want their home, their wishes and each other protected, and want it done once and done properly. What is included
Prepared together in one engagement for £4,250. The individual fees are shown so you can see exactly what the plan contains; you are free to instruct any single document on its own instead. The Business Owner Estate Plan£6,000
For owner-directors whose company is the biggest thing they own. The bridge between your estate and your business — the plan that makes sure the two are actually joined up, which is exactly where most advisers stop. What is included
The Estate Plan+£7,950
For estates that need more than the standard structure — larger or blended families, the question of whether a family investment company is the right route, or wealth that warrants a formal, written opinion on how it is all held. Everything in the Family Estate Plan, plus
A word on family investment companies: this plan includes the planning and the recommendation — the advice on whether an FIC is genuinely the right route, and how it would sit within your wider estate. If one is then required, forming and capitalising it is an additional, self-contained piece of work — but discounted by 40% to reflect the planning already done within this plan: from £9,000, against a standard FIC price from £15,000. Straightforward or complex, the company is scoped, priced and agreed with you first — you are never quietly billed for the harder version.
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What every plan includes — and why it is done this wayHowever complicated the papers, the experience is the same, and it is deliberately unhurried. Every plan is delivered the same way: One signing conferenceWe go through the whole structure together and sign everything correctly in one sitting — witnesses arranged, formalities right, nothing left to chance at your kitchen table. A one-page Counsel’s NoteA plain-English note, in your wallet, explaining what your structure actually does — so your executors and your family understand it without a lawyer in the room. A bound walletYour documents arrive bound together in one place, ready to be found when they are needed — not loose in a drawer, not lost on a hard drive. An honest word on care fees
You may have seen “property protection” or “home protection” plans sold on the promise that a trust keeps your home safe from care-home fees. Be careful. No lawful plan can guarantee that — the deliberate deprivation rules allow a local authority to look through arrangements made to avoid care costs, so a promise of “care-fee protection” is usually worthless, and this practice will never make one. What a trust does do is real and worth having: it can protect the share of a home for children of an earlier marriage, keep your affairs private, speed up administration, and provide for a survivor for life with the capital passing on as you intend. You will be told plainly what your structure can and cannot achieve — before you instruct, in writing, by the barrister who drafts it.
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Prefer to instruct a single document?You can. Every document in every plan can be instructed on its own at a published fixed fee — a single will from £750, both LPAs for one person £1,700, a lifetime property trust £3,500, and so on. The full list is on the pricing page. Most families find that once they add up the pieces, a plan does more, for less effort, at a price they can see in advance. Begin with a free Initial View
One conversation tells you which plan is yours.A free, no-obligation call with the barrister — not a call handler — and a short written note of my view afterwards, whether or not you go ahead. A fixed-fee quote follows within 24 hours. Book a free Initial View →info@barraj.co.uk · 029 2264 4149 Fees are indicative, plus VAT and any third-party disbursements, and are superseded by the written quote for your matter. This page is general information, not advice on your own circumstances. Barraj Legal is a trading style of Rhys Johns, a barrister authorised and regulated by the Bar Standards Board and authorised to conduct litigation. |