Personal, professional estate planning across Heathfield and the surrounding High Weald villages — at your kitchen table, on your schedule.
Heathfield sits on the High Weald in East Sussex, the natural market town for the cluster of villages between Crowborough and Hailsham. From my base I regularly visit clients in Burwash, and Hurst Green. Home visits to all of these are included in the quoted price — there's no extra travel charge for the smaller villages.
I'm Emma Wrigley — a law graduate with over 20 years in the legal sector — and I set up Kent Legacy Planning because estate planning should fit around your life, not the other way around. The conversations I have with clients are usually held over a cup of tea at the kitchen table, on an evening or weekend if that's what works, with no office visits and no rushed appointments.
All prices include home visits across Heathfield and the surrounding villages.
From £225
A professionally drafted will that clearly expresses your wishes, protects your assets, and provides for your loved ones with legal certainty. Includes a free phone consultation, a home visit for detailed instructions, careful drafting tailored to your circumstances, and a signing appointment at your home with proper witnessing.
£350
Coordinated wills for partners that reflect shared wishes while accounting for individual circumstances. One phone consultation, a home visit for joint instructions, two complete wills, and a signing appointment at your kitchen table.
£275 per document
Ensure trusted people can make important decisions on your behalf for health, welfare, and financial matters if you're ever unable to. I guide you through every step including registration with the Office of the Public Guardian. OPG registration fee of £92 per document is payable separately.
Free with will / £85 standalone
A personal document to guide your executors on matters close to your heart — funeral preferences, personal bequests, and messages to loved ones. Included free with every will, or £85 as a standalone document.
£595 per couple
Protect your share of the family home while ensuring your partner can continue living there — safeguarding assets for future generations. Includes severance of joint tenancy so your property is properly structured for the trust to work.
1.5% of estate value
Practical, compassionate help administering an estate after a loved one has died. I handle the paperwork — applying for the Grant of Probate, valuing assets, dealing with banks and HMRC, settling liabilities, and distributing the estate to the beneficiaries — so the family doesn't have to. Transparent percentage pricing, far below typical solicitor rates. Probate Registry fees are payable separately.
A recent client near Heathfield
“Emma came out to us in Burwash on a Saturday morning and took us through a Property Trust Will properly — no jargon, no pressure. She even sorted the severance of joint tenancy as part of the process, all over a pot of tea at our kitchen table.”
For many families around Heathfield, Burwash and Hurst Green, the High Weald home is the single largest asset in the estate — often built up over decades and carrying real sentimental weight as well as financial. That makes how the house passes — and to whom — one of the most important decisions in your will. A standard will leaves your share of the property outright to your partner, which works for plenty of couples but isn’t right for everyone.
A Property Trust Will — sometimes called a Property Protection Trust — lets you ringfence your share of the home so that, after you’ve gone, your partner can carry on living there for the rest of their life, but your share is ultimately protected for the people you want to inherit it. It’s a service that’s particularly well suited to the older, property-owning households across the Heathfield catchment, where the home is often the inheritance. It’s commonly the right answer for:
The process includes severance of joint tenancy — the legal step that changes how the two of you hold the property so the trust can actually take effect when the time comes. I handle that as part of the £595-per-couple fee, which also covers the drafting of both wills, the trust wording itself, and a signing appointment at your home with proper witnessing. There’s no extra cost for the home visit. We’ll work through the details at your own kitchen table, on an evening or weekend if that suits better, rather than across a desk in a solicitor’s office in town.
I cover Heathfield itself and the surrounding High Weald villages, including Burwash and Hurst Green, as well as the smaller hamlets and outlying farms tucked into the lanes between Heathfield and the neighbouring towns. There's no additional charge for visiting any of these — home visits are included in the quoted price, whether you're a couple in the centre of Heathfield or an elderly relative on a quiet lane outside Burwash. I'll happily travel to wherever feels most comfortable for the conversation, at whatever time of day works for the household.
For most families around Heathfield and Burwash, the family home is by far the largest single asset in the estate, and Wealden property values mean it often sits well above the residence nil- rate band threshold. That makes how you hold the house — and how it passes — central to any will. A Property Trust Will lets you ringfence your share for your chosen beneficiaries while still allowing your partner to live there for life. We sever the joint tenancy as part of the process so the trust can actually take effect when the time comes.
Yes — I'm available seven days a week, including evenings, with no extra charge for out-of-hours visits. Many Heathfield couples find an evening appointment after work easier than taking time off, and weekend visits work well when older parents or adult children want to be present for the conversation. If you'd rather not give up a Saturday morning, a weekday evening over a cup of tea works just as well. I'll fit around whatever the household needs rather than asking you to fit around me.
It often does, and it's a common conversation around Heathfield. Where each partner has children from a previous relationship, a standard mirror will can leave the survivor free to redirect the whole estate later — sometimes unintentionally cutting out the other side's children. A Property Trust Will fixes this by protecting each partner's share of the home and other assets for their own children, while still giving the surviving spouse a secure place to live. We'll talk through the family shape and work out wording that genuinely reflects what you both want.
Absolutely — most of my older clients much prefer to discuss these matters in their own home, and that's especially important for anyone with mobility difficulties or who finds an office intimidating. I regularly visit clients in Burwash, Hurst Green and the surrounding lanes, and family members are very welcome to sit in on the conversation if that's helpful. I'm happy to coordinate appointments around adult children travelling in from further afield so everyone can be part of the discussion.
Most couples around Heathfield choose the Complete Peace of Mind Package at £1,195 — mirror wills, both types of LPA for both partners, and letters of wishes. That's six professionally drafted documents in one process. OPG registration fees (£368 for four LPAs) are payable separately to the government.
