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At Christie Munro we are able to offer a professional Will

writing service including:

Wills

Estate Planning


Inheritance Tax Planning

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The Service We Offer

Our company is happy to take your Will instruction at a place and time convenient to you. We are located near High

Wycombe between Beaconsfield and Amersham. We are able to offer you guidance and advice in plain English. Our

fees are extremely reasonable, given to you in advance and the prices quoted are fixed with no hidden costs.

The procedure to write your Will is that we meet for about 1 hour to take your instruction. Following this we send a

draft copy of your Will for your approval. Finally we meet for a second time to have your Will legally signed and

witnessed.

As members of the Institute of Professional Willwriters (IPW) we are fully trained and qualified by examination. We

are also regulated by the IPW and work to their Code of Practice.

For your protection, all our work is covered by Professional Indemnity Insurance worth £2million.

We also adhere to the Data Protection Act which means all our discussions remain confidential.

Updated November 7th, 2014 by Christie_Munro

Company Information

Christie Munro Will Writers Ltd

Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879

This firm is Compliant with the IPW Code of Practice - We offer a full Will Writing Service and have clients is Amersham, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Aylesbury, Chalfont St Peter, Holmer Green, Maidenhead, Chesham, Hazlemere, Gerrards Cross, West London and throughout the

Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire areas.

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Every adult should take out a Will – now

Making a Will is probably the most important document you will ever

create.

It is only with a valid Will that you can be sure that loved ones of your

choice will inherit your assets, property, possessions and money.

Having a Will allows you to choose Guardians for your children and

also to choose Executors and Trustees who you trust.

What would happen if you died without making a Will

(Intestate)?

It may be that your spouse will not inherit the whole of your estate.

Unmarried couples have no automatic rights to inherit any of their partner’s estate. This may cause financial

hardship

Step-children will not inherit.

The court will decide who should be appointed as Guardian of your children and Executors/Trustees of your

estate.

By using our Will writing service you get to decide what you want.


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Trusts

Would a trust benefit you?

A Life Interest Trust or Immediate Post Death Interest in

Possession Trust as it is also known will allow the first spouse who

dies’s share of their property and / or money to be loaned to the

surviving spouse through the inclusion of the trust. When the surviving

spouse dies, the assets in the trust are guaranteed to pass to the

family of the first spouse and the assets of the surviving spouse pass

to their family.

A Discretionary Trust may be an appropriate inclusion in your Will if

your beneficiaries are going through a period of misfortune, such as

bankruptcy, divorce or poor state of mind or are in receipt of means tested benefits. The discretionary trust will enable

the inheritance to be managed by trustees on behalf of these beneficiaries.

Couples who are not married can include a Discretionary Trust with IOU provision in their Will to maximise their

inheritance tax allowances and therefore minimise (or eliminate) inheritance tax due on their estates.

Christie Munro Will Writers can advise whether a trust may benefit you.


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Lasting Power of Attorney (formally known as an Enduring

Power of Attorney)

If there comes a time in your life when you are no longer able to look

after your affairs due to a sudden accident, illness or gradually

advancing age, you may wish for a close relative or friend to assist

you in paying your bills, to manage your bank accounts or to speak

on your behalf on medical matters.

None of us know what the future holds for us, but we can be

prepared. By taking out a Property and Affairs Lasting Power of

Attorney (PALPA) and/or a Heath and Welfare Lasting Power of

Attorney (HWLPA) you would be appointing somebody who you trust to look after you should the need arise. An LPA is

a legal document that can only be completed whilst you have the mental capacity to do so. So putting it off now might

mean that it cannot be done later.

A Property and Affairs Lasting Power of Attorney allows your attorney(s) to look after all or just some of your

financial and property affairs. This may include paying your bills, collecting your income and benefits.

A Heath and Welfare Lasting Power of Attorney allows your Attorney(s) to make decisions on your behalf about

your personal welfare. This may include where you live, your diet, daily routines, whether to give or refuse consent to

medical treatment. At all times the attorney is expected to have your best interest at heart.

What would happen if you lost your mental capacity and needed to appoint an attorney? If you became unable to

manage your affairs and didn’t have an LPA your relatives would need to apply to the Court of Protection so that a

Deputy could be appointed to look after your property, affairs and/or personal welfare. It is the court who would make

the choice of Deputy. This is a far more costly and a more lengthy process.


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Inheritance Tax

Do you know …….. The first £325,000, the nil rate band allowance

for year 2014/2015 will be free of IHT to pass to your beneficiaries.

Any assets left in your estate in excess of this amount will be

charged at 40%.

Although there is an exception, under the Transferable Nil Rate

Band legislation introduced in Oct 2007 married couples and civil

partners can pass their entire estate to the surviving spouse without

incurring any inheritance tax. On second death they are eligible to a

combined total of £650,000 in 2014/2015 before attracting an

inheritance tax liability.

However for an application to be successful you need to be prepared; In order to gain benefit from this transfer of

assets your claim would need to be supported by all relevant documents, including your original Will, any Codicils or

Deed of Variation, a copy of the Grant of Probate, death certificate, tax documents and details of any gifts that may

have been given out of the first deceased estate in order to prove what IHT allowance may already have been used

up.

There are many ways in which your IHT liability can be reduced. Some of the options that Christie Munro

would discuss with you to reduce or avoid IHT entirely are:

Nil Rate Band Discretionary Will Trust

Equalisation of estates for married couples and civil partners

Potentially Exempt Transfers

Regular use of annual transfers

Making use of Business Relief’s or Agricultural Relief’s

A Gift to a Charity


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Secure Storage

Safe Document Storage at the National Will Safe

Your Will and/or Lasting Power of Attorney are very important documents and

should be kept safe. We always recommend that such documents are not

kept at home – in case of fire, flood, theft and even deliberate damage or

destruction.

We are able to offer a secure storage facility with the National Will Safe at a

modest cost, where all your documents will be kept safe.

Documents can be retrieved within 24 hours. There is a strict criteria for

security and proof of identity is required before the handing over of any

documents.


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Advance Decision

More and more people are choosing to draw up an Advance

Decision or Living Will as it used to be known. This document

allows you to indicate the level of care that you want or don’t want

in the event that you are unable to communicate this wish to

medical staff.

An Advance Decision is a relatively straight forward document

which, once made, can be kept with medical notes to assist

medical staff and loved ones to make decisions about the level of medical care to be administered. An Advance

Decision can be cancelled or amended at any time.


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Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Please contact Christie Munro Will Writers if you wish to make an appointment or have an enquiry.

We offer a professional Will Writing service and can take your Will instructions at a place and time convenient to you.

Company Information


Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879


Company Information


Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879




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Are you familiar with the Intestacy Rules (dying without a Will) – this is why at Christie Munro Will Writers we

advise that you should have a professionally drafted Will.

Many people die without leaving a Will believing their close family will inherit their estate. Sadly, intestacy law may not

allow your estate to be distributed as you may expect.

If you die leaving a husband, wife or civil partner (“the Spouse”) and you have children your Spouse will take all your

personal belongings/chattels and your spouse will receive a legacy of £250,000 from your estate. Anything above this

is divided into two. Your Spouse gets a life interest in half – i.e the income made on half of the residue– not the half

share itself. The other half, and the surviving Spouse’s half when they die, goes to your children and, if your children

die before you, to your grandchildren. This legacy is held on trust for minor beneficiaries until they attain 18 or

marry under that age.

If you die leaving children or grandchildren but no Spouse, your children, or grandchildren if your children die before

you leaving children, take your entire estate.

If you die leaving a Spouse and parents or siblings, your Spouse will take the personal belongings and a lump sum of

£450,000, plus half of the rest of your estate. The other half goes, in equal shares if more than one to your parents, or

if both have died before you on statutory trust to your surviving brothers or sisters of the whole blood and if none to

your nephews and nieces.

Your Spouse receives everything if there are no children, grandchidlren, parents, or siblings of the same parents …..

and the rules of intestacy go on benefitting remoter relatives and if nobody is eligible your estate will pass “bona

vacantia” to the Crown.


Important matters to consider and why you should have a will.

If you were to die intestate could your spouse survive on £250,000 and the interest on half of the rest of your estate –

not the capital?

Cohabiting partners are not automatically eligible to inherit anything from their partners estate.

Your children and grandchildren would receive from your estate at age 18. Would you want them to have access to all

that money at such a young age? Would you not prefer that they were 21 or even 25?

Your friends and charities who you may have supported in your life will never receive from your estate.

It should be noted that if the family home is held jointly and not as Tenants in Common then the house will pass

automatically by survivorship and so will not form part of the £250,000/£450,000 legacy.


Company Information


Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879

Lasting Powers of Attorney are not just for the elderly

Many people think that Lasting Powers of Attorney are only for the elderly. This simply is not the case, having a

Lasting Powers of Attorney is equally important to have incase of accident or sudden illness. Any person from the age

of 18 years and upwards should be considering the benefits of this legal document.

If you have a Lasting Power of Attorney in place and you become mentally incapacitated or you are physically

incapacitated through accident or illness, then your appointed Attorney/s who will most probably be one of your close

relatives, will not face long delays and expenses in applying to the Court of Protection for access to and taking control

of your financial affairs and/or your health and welfare. This is because someone appointed as an Attorney, e.g. a

wife/husband or son/daughter can make decisions immediately in respect of the person’s bills, running bank accounts,

investing money, selling property and making decisions about medical treatment being received.

Lasting Powers of Attorney are recognised by all financial institutions, care homes and local authorities and can be set

up easily with the help of Christie Munro Will Writers.


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Please contact Christie Munro Will Writers if you wish to make an appointment or have an enquiry.

We offer a professional Will Writing service and can take your Will instructions at a place and time convenient to you.

Company Information


Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879


Company Information


Pondside House

Pond Approach

Holmer Green

High Wycombe

Buckinghamshire

HP15 6SZ

Telephone

01494 713 947

Email

[email protected]

Company Reg.No.

6702879


