Probate Solicitors

At Cullimore Dutton, our committed probate solicitors are focused on providing more than your standard probate service. When you choose us, you’ll receive more expertise, more assurance, and more care.

When a loved one passes away, we appreciate that you and your family will be going through an extremely hard time. We know that handling the probate process can feel both daunting and complex. Thankfully, you can rely on our compassionate team to support you, handling various aspects of the probate process on your behalf, always catering our support to your preferences and needs.

Our team always remain both supportive and proactive, ensuring that potentially complex matters and processes are made simple.

We can provide various types of help with probate matters, such as:

• Applying for a Grant of Probate
• Applying for Letters of Administration
• Estate Administration
• Contentious Probate

Get in touch with our expert probate solicitors in Chester

To access support with probate, please get in touch with our expert probate solicitors at Cullimore Dutton.

You can give us a call on 01244 356789, or complete our contact form and a member of our team will contact you as soon as possible.

Why work with Cullimore Dutton?

With a long, rich history dating back to 1792, we are proud to be one of the most established law firms in the region. Thanks to the dedication of our teams, we have an outstanding reputation in the community.

We are one of just a handful of law firms that provide both financial and legal services in one place. We believe that handling both allows us to take a more holistic approach, resulting in improved decision making, including in the case of probate matters.

At Cullimore Dutton, we have over 70 years of experience advising and helping clients with probates, Wills, estates, tax, trusts, and LPAs. Our team is all experts in this area of the law and is either working towards Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) membership or is already a member or is a member of the Association of Lifetime Lawyers.

We know that these legal areas can be sensitive and can guarantee that you will always receive empathetic and proactive assistance. With our specialist advice, you will ensure the best for you and your loved ones.

When you work with Cullimore Dutton, you’ll benefit from more protection, more guidance, and more commitment.

Our Probate service

Applying for a Grant of Probate

If you have been appointed as an executor in a Will, it will be your responsibility to administer the estate of your deceased loved one. We know that this may feel like an overwhelming task, particularly when you’re already going through a tough time. Our team can sensitively help you through each stage, ensuring that you are supported, and have all of the information that you need.

First, we will help you to apply for a Grant of Probate, a document that will grant you the legal permission that you need to administer the deceased’s estate.

At this stage, our probate solicitors will also provide personalised legal advice based on your circumstances and answer any of your questions.

Applying for Letters of Administration

If a person unfortunately passes away without a Will, their estate will be divided according to the rules of intestacy, meaning that only certain family members can inherit, and that this person will not have an executor.

In this case, the next of Kin will act as the estate administrator, responsible for completing the probate process. If you have been tasked with this role, we can help you to apply for Letters of Administration, granting you the legal powers that you need to administer the estate.

Whatever type of support that you need with this process, our probate and estate lawyers will provide it sensitively. Our goal is always to provide more care, ensuring that all of your needs are covered.

Estate administration

If your role includes administering your deceased loved one’s estate, there are various different tasks that you will need to complete as part of the process. Our specialist solicitors at Cullimore Dutton can support you with all of the tasks that you will need to carry out, including:

• Identifying all of the deceased’s assets, debts and liabilities and using this information to value the estate
• Completing an Inheritance Tax return and paying any Inheritance Tax owed on the estate
• Dividing the estate between the beneficiaries, according to the deceased’s wishes in the Will/rules of intestacy

We realise that these tasks can be difficult, both practically and emotionally. Our deceased estate administration solicitors will always handle your case with the utmost care.

Contentious Probate

If you are facing a Will or Probate dispute, please contact our team and they will be able to assist you.  Whilst we do not offer this service in house, we have developed trusted relationships with Contentious Probate Experts.