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Nottingham Wills, Trusts & Probate Solicitors

Experienced Private Client & Estate Administration Solicitors

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Our Nottingham Wills, trusts and probate solicitors can help you if someone has passed away. We expertly handle complex procedures like administration of estates of all sizes, including foreign assets, business or agricultural assets, or disagreements between beneficiaries. We also assist with winding up trusts, dealing with debts and proving ambiguous wills. Our Nottingham lawyers can also advise you on gift applications and inheritance tax planning, including trusts and other structures, such as family investment companies. You can trust Nottingham’s Private Client team to be sensitive and to explain things clearly.

If you want to make a trust, we also offer a full trust service, from setting up a trust, managing a trust (including ensuring all compliance requirements are met, such as helping with FATCA, the Common Reporting Standard (‘CRS’), anti-money laundering regulations and the trust registration requirements), advising trustees on the options available to them, drafting trust accounts, making distributions from a trust and dealing with all the necessary tax reporting along the way, from annual trust tax returns to inheritance tax reporting on a trust ending.

Nottingham has a dedicated team of wills, trusts and probate solicitors to support you in managing, organising and safeguarding your interests. Our Nottingham solicitors can help you make a will to fit your personal circumstances, whatever they may be. We have an award-winning team of Private Litigation lawyers who can assist with the contentious side. Whatever the issue, we will try to give you peace of mind.

Contact Rahul Kotecha at our Nottingham office, or Mark Keeley if it’s a wills, trust and probate dispute.

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Our Nottingham Wills, trusts and probate solicitors are renowned for providing clear, concise advice. Whether you need advice on managing wealth, creating a trust, or seeking guidance on Wills and probate, we can help. By bringing together lawyers with tax and accountancy knowledge, we get your finances in control.

We also seek to offer fixed fees for Wills and Trusts where possible, and will always agree our costs with you in advance, so there are no nasty surprises later.

If you need Nottingham’s Contentious Trusts and Probate team, please contact Mark Keeley or Rachel Gaffney. They are experts in acting for individuals in probate, trust and wills disputes.

Why choose our Nottingham Wills, Trusts & Probate Solicitors

  • Freeths’ Nottingham office is located in the city centre near Maid Marian Way
  • Our private client lawyers are friendly and approachable, helping you to relieve stress
  • We have a national reputation for advising executors, trustees and beneficiaries
  • Our dispute resolution and finance teams are on hand to advise on family or money issues
  • You can trust our lawyers’ credentials – many are top rated by the legal directories

“Actively promotes mediation and looks for settlements while never compromising the client’s position’. He acts in an impressive array of cases, including actions to set aside wills on grounds of undue influence, and complex Inheritance Act disputes.”

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Mark Keeley

Partner & Joint Head of Private Client Services

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Rahul Kotecha and Mark Keeley – Private Client Solicitors based in Nottingham

Rahul heads up the wills, trusts and team in our Nottingham office. He deals with estate administration (including cross-border estates), inheritance tax, and estate planning (including multi-jurisdictional issues). He can support inter-generational trusts, acting as a trustee and advising trustees of their responsibilities.

Mark Keeley heads our Private Litigation team and is also based in Nottingham. He has over 20 years’ experience of dealing with contentious trust and probate disputes. Mark is recognised as a “Leading Individual” by both The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, and he is also a qualified Mediator.

Examples of wills, trusts and probate cases in Nottingham

  • High profile cases include Walker v Walker [2007] EWHC 597 and Nankervis v Coates & Coates.
  • Mark has represented well over 200 clients in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 in estates, ranging from a modest value up to estates exceeding £25 million.
  • Mark has been appointed by the High Court as replacement administrator in several high value disputed estates, following the removal of the previous personal representatives.
  • Advising families on the management and structure of their financial assets, particularly in the context of complex asset structures and family dynamics.
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