Personal, professional estate planning across Staplehurst and the surrounding villages — at your kitchen table, on your schedule.
Staplehurst is a sizeable Wealden village in mid-Kent, sitting on the Tonbridge–Ashford railway line between Paddock Wood and Headcorn. From my base I regularly visit clients in Headcorn, and Frittenden. 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 Staplehurst 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 Staplehurst
“Emma came out to us in Headcorn on a Saturday morning to take instructions for our mirror wills — we both work in London during the week, so a weekend visit made all the difference. She walked us through the guardianship clauses for the children carefully over a pot of tea at the kitchen table.”
For couples raising young families in Staplehurst, Headcorn and Frittenden — many of them commuting up to London or Ashford during the week — mirror wills are the most practical way to get the essentials in place without spending a Saturday in a solicitor’s office. The demographic here skews younger than the rest of the Weald: shared mortgage, two careers, school-age children, and a long list of weekend priorities that rarely includes drafting a will.
That’s exactly why mirror wills work so well for this audience. You and your partner sit down once, talk through who would look after the children, who inherits what, and how the house should pass — and I produce two coordinated documents that read consistently and cover both of you in one process. It’s faster, cheaper, and clearer than drafting two separate wills, and for couples with broadly aligned wishes it’s almost always the right starting point.
The scenarios I see most often around Staplehurst are:
Mirror wills for a couple are £350 — that’s both wills, drafted to match, with a free letter of wishes included so you can cover funeral preferences, personal bequests, and notes for whoever ends up looking after the children. We start with a free no-obligation phone call to understand your circumstances, and home visits are built into the £350 price; I’ll come to you in Staplehurst, Headcorn or Frittenden, take instructions at the kitchen table over a cup of tea, and return a week or two later with an independent witness for the signing appointment so the wills are executed properly and stand up in law. Most couples are done in two visits across a fortnight, and once they’re signed I keep a secure record of where the originals are stored so they can be found quickly when needed.
I cover Staplehurst itself, along with Headcorn and Frittenden, and I'm happy to visit families across the wider mid-Kent area from Marden through to the edges of the Cranbrook Weald. Home visits are included in the quoted price — there's no separate mileage charge for the smaller villages. If you're in a hamlet or farmhouse just outside Staplehurst and you're not sure whether you're inside the catchment, give me a call. The answer is almost always yes, and I'd far rather come to you than ask you to travel.
Most couples I see in Staplehurst and Headcorn have young children, a shared mortgage, and not a lot of spare time between the school run and the train into London. Mirror wills are the most efficient way to get the essentials in place — guardianship for the children, who inherits what, and how the house passes if something happens to one or both of you. They sit alongside each other and read consistently, so there's no ambiguity. For a couple with broadly aligned wishes, this is almost always the right starting point rather than two separately drafted documents.
Yes — I'm available seven days a week, including evenings, with no extra charge for out-of-hours visits. That matters in Staplehurst more than most places I cover, because so many families here have at least one partner commuting up to London or Ashford every weekday. A Saturday morning appointment, or a 7pm visit after the children are settled, is often the only realistic option for busy households. I'd much rather work around your week than ask you to take a half-day off work to fit me in, and weekend appointments are no different in price.
Guardianship is one of the most important — and most often overlooked — parts of a young family's will. I'll talk you through who you'd want to step in if the worst happened, how to name a primary and a backup guardian, and how to phrase the clause so it stands up legally without sounding cold on paper. It's worth speaking to the people you have in mind before we finalise anything, and I can give you a draft to share with them if that helps the conversation. We can also build in a letter of wishes covering schooling, faith, and day-to-day care preferences.
Of course — that's the most common way I work. Many of my Staplehurst-area clients are introduced to me by adult children who want their parents' wills, LPAs or both updated but know the conversation will go better at the kitchen table than in an office. I'm happy for you to sit in on the appointment, and I can coordinate the visit around you travelling in. For older clients in Headcorn or Frittenden, a familiar setting genuinely helps — there's no rush, and we can take breaks whenever anyone needs one.
Most couples 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.
