Low cost probate.

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Our Probate and Full Administration Services

Our unique probate service has been featured in six national newspapers ‘see here’ and which? Money Magazine. Our Probate Services are specifically designed to ensure that you save money and get top quality advice from a leading specialist law firm.

Qualified and Regulated Solicitors

We only use qualified and regulated estate administration specialist solicitors for our fixed price probate services. Unlike some other probate providers, that are unqualified and unregulated, Final Duties offer the security of a solicitor dealing with probate at a fair fixed cost.

Choose the service that suits you

We offer probate only and full estate administration services, as well as additional legal and administration services. This means you get to decide how much assistance with probate you would like. We can handle just the paperwork or we can handle everything, you decide.

Guaranteed Fixed Fee Probate

The fees for all of our probate and estate administration services are agreed upfront before any work takes place so you know from the onset what you are going to pay. If you decide you need more assistance we will always provide you with the cost first.

Probate Services

*Subject to estate suitabilty

How it Works

Step 1 Get a fixed fee probate Quote

It only takes approximately 10 – 15 minutes with one of our expert probate advisors to receive a free no-obligation fixed fee probate Quotation. Take a look at our Q&A section below to find out which price you will pay.

As part of our probate service, we will provide you with a detailed written quotation free of charge and without obligation. This is done over the telephone; no one will visit you and you will be left in peace to decide whether to accept our quotation. We believe that our service and competitive prices will sell itself.

Step 2 Instruct your Solicitor

Once you accept the guaranteed fixed fee probate quote your qualified and regulated solicitor will be instructed straight away and will call you to get things started on the same day.

Your Solicitor will complete the relevant probate and Inheritance tax applications and submit them to the probate registry on your behalf.

Step 3 Receive your Grant of Probate

Once your solicitor has obtained the grant of probate they will send it to you so you can complete the estate administration and distribution.

Full Estate Administration Services

How it works

Step 1 Get a Quote

For our Full estate administration service our probate experts take comprehensive details of the estate at the outset so that we can provide a fixed fee written probate quotation that is guaranteed not to increase unless the details of the estate change. It only takes approximately 10 – 15 minutes with one of our expert probate advisors to receive a free no-obligation fixed fee probate Quotation.

Step 2 Instruct your Solicitor

Once you accept the guaranteed fixed fee probate quote your qualified and regulated solicitor will be instructed straight away. There’s no upfront cost for our Full administrative service and your selected solicitor will call you on the same day to get things started.

Step 3 Your solicitor will administer the estate

Your solicitor will carry out the complete administration of the estate on your behalf. You will be given a designated case handler who will keep you regularly updated with the progress of the estate administration via email or phone.

Step 4 Your Solicitor will distribute the estate

Once probate has been granted and the estate has been settled your solicitor will distribute the estate to the beneficiaries and provide you with a full set of estate accounts so you can see exactly what was in the estate and how it was distributed.

What’s Included?

Our fixed fee quotation will include a 24 point schedule for our low-cost probate and full estate administration service. This schedule sets out exactly what service you will receive and a breakdown of all other charges and disbursements. Possible disbursements that we are able to identify early on in our fact-finding process are detailed in our quote.

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We can also help with taking care of every detail

We can help you with every aspect of administering the estate. Very few Probate providers are able to offer such a wide range of ancillary services and these can save you time, money and worry at a difficult time. Our probate specialist will point out what additional services may be applicable to your circumstances.

Legal extras

Professional Executor Renunciation

Specialist tax advice

Setting up trusts in will

Instrument of variation

Registration and transfer of property

Conveyancing

Income tax work

Wills

Power of attorney

Additional services

Locating Lost beneficiaries

Asset Tracing

Placing a statutory advertisement London Gazette

Valuation of Shareholdings

Property Valuations by a local estate agent

Property Valuations by a RICs Chartered Surveyor

Support for executors and administrators

Arranging postal redirection

Cancelling or transferring utilities

Arranging specialist empty property insurance

Which fixed fee probate service will I need?
If you are just looking for help with the probate application process but have the rest of the administration in hand, our Probate only services are suitable in many cases. Our Probate only service is perfect for a simple estate. However, if the deceased’s estate is a little more complex our Probate only plus service may be necessary. A couple of examples of when out Probate plus service would be needed is if the deceased had an extensive estate, gave gifts of over £3000 in that last seven years or is liable for inheritance tax. If you would prefer for a solicitor to handle the majority or all of the estate administration our Full Administration service is the best option for you.

Our probate advisors will be able to talk you through the estate and advise you on what service suits your situation best and provide you with a fixed fee quote for any of the probate services you are interested in.

Who will be my solicitor?
Once you have instructed us, your Final Duties probate advisor will carefully select one of the estate administration solicitors from our panel and let you know who that is straight away. Your dedicated case handler at the selected solicitor’s firm will contact you on the same day to introduce themselves.

You will deal directly with your solicitor just as if you had instructed them yourself. Your solicitor will be regulated by the SRA (Solicitors Regulatory Authority) or the CLC (The Specialist Property regulator) and because of this, you will be protected by their code of conduct and compensation scheme.

Rest assured that our solicitors are some of the most experienced probate solicitors in the country. They are handpicked and monitored by our full-time customer service team to ensure they are delivering on their promises and ensuring they are working to our strict service levels. To find out more about our solicitors click here.

How do final duties select which solicitor to use for my probate estate?
Final Duties work with a unique panel of probate specialist solicitors based all over England and Wales. Once our probate advisor has an understanding of the make-up of the estate they will be able to select a solicitor that is best suited to your particular circumstances. With a diverse and specialist group of professionals we can always place your case with the most appropriate partner best qualified to deal with your estate whilst ensuring they have the capacity to deliver great customer service.
Will I have to visit my solicitor?
No, you will never need to go to the office of the solicitor we have selected. All our probate services can be completed remotely with no need for travelling or visits.
What happens if I am unhappy with the solicitor?
A benefit of instructing your solicitor through final duties is that we only have solicitors on our panel that have proven they can provide a high level of service to our clients. We also only use regulated solicitors on our panel which provides you with extra security that your solicitor must abide by a strict set of principles and code of conduct. We hold our solicitors to strict standards and if an issue arises we work with you and your solicitor to resolve the problem quickly and efficiently to ensure the best level of service.

If you are unhappy with the solicitor we have selected you should let us know as soon as possible. If it’s still early in the process, we will simply move your case to another solicitor on our panel who will carry out the work at the same fixed rate fee.

Why are Final Duties Solicitors cheaper than other probate providers?
As the first probate broker in England and Wales, Final Duties has specialised in low-cost probate for over 10 years. Final Duties was founded in order to provide a cost-effective option to estate administration and probate services.

At Final Duties, we have designed our own probate fees model that goes against the traditional hourly rates and percentage charging systems often used in the probate industry. Bank probate service fees often exceed 4% of the estate’s value and most Solicitors work on a cost per hour plus a percentage of the estate.

We think that this is grossly unfair. Using our own probate fee model we are able to provide our clients with a fair fixed fee probate service without sacrificing quality. Our quotation is based on a fair estimate of the number of hours work required, rather than a percentage of the estate’s value.

As our low-cost probate fee model only takes into account the actual work involved in administering an estate and not its value, estates of a higher value are not penalised as they would be under a percentage charging structure. It also means that even if the value of the estate increases our fees won’t change.

An example of how our fee model works would be when there are 2 estates, one with a value of £200,000 and another with a value of £300,000 but both estates consist of one property, one bank account and identical distribution then the fees would be the same.

How does Final Duties produce a fixed fee probate quote?
Our probate specialist will talk you through an Estate Fact Find to establish what assets make up the estate and what work is involved in administering it. This is an important process because unlike some firms, our fees are not based on the value of the estate but focus on the actual volume of work. Going through this information at the start allows us to provide you with the most accurate fee possible and save you money from the very beginning.

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