Personal, professional estate planning across Tonbridge and the surrounding villages — at your home, on your schedule, evenings and weekends.
Tonbridge is the second-largest town in the area, a Medway-side commuter town with strong rail links to London and a band of villages to its north and west. From my base I regularly visit clients in Capel, and Five Oak 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 Tonbridge 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 Tonbridge
“Emma came out to us in Five Oak Green one Tuesday evening after the children were in bed and walked us through mirror wills and guardianship for our two boys. We'd been putting it off for years — she made it straightforward, and signed everything off at our kitchen table over a cup of tea a fortnight later.”
For families in Tonbridge, Capel and Five Oak Green, mirror wills are usually the most sensible starting point — a coordinated pair of wills for a couple whose wishes broadly match. They’re the bread and butter of estate planning for the commuter families who make up so much of this part of Kent.
If you’re in your thirties or forties with a mortgage, young children, and a busy working life split between London and home, the chances are you’ve been meaning to sort out a will for years and never quite got round to it. The trouble is that without one, the rules of intestacy decide what happens to your estate — and crucially, the courts decide who looks after your children if the worst happens. Mirror wills fix both of those problems in a single, affordable appointment.
The typical scenarios where mirror wills are the right answer:
The fee is £350 for the pair, which is the same as a single will plus a little more — considerably less than commissioning two separate wills. That covers the initial phone consultation, a home visit to take instructions from both of you together, the drafting of two complete and coordinated wills, and a second visit to sign and witness them at your kitchen table. There’s no extra charge for the home visit, no extra charge for evening or weekend appointments, and a letter of wishes is included free for each of you to capture funeral preferences and any personal messages alongside the legal document. If you’d also like to think about lasting powers of attorney at the same time — sensible while you’re already going through your circumstances in detail — we can roll that into the same conversation and quote the Peace of Mind Package as an alternative.
I cover Tonbridge itself and the villages immediately south and east of the town — Capel and Five Oak Green in particular, both of which sit on the road out towards Paddock Wood. Home visits are included in the quoted price, so there's no extra travel charge for either. If you're a little further out — for instance towards Hildenborough, Leigh, Penshurst or Hadlow — do get in touch and I'll happily confirm whether I can come to you. In most cases the answer is yes.
Mirror wills are designed for couples whose wishes broadly match — typically: everything to each other first, then to the children equally, with named guardians if both parents die before the children grow up. Drafting them together rather than separately means the two documents dovetail properly and there are no contradictions between them. For most Tonbridge families with a mortgage and young children, it's the most cost-effective way to get proper protection in place — £350 for the pair rather than two single wills at £225 each.
Yes — I'm available seven days a week, including evenings, with no extra charge for out-of-hours visits. Most of my Tonbridge clients are commuters or working parents, so an evening appointment after the children are in bed, or a Saturday morning over coffee, tends to work far better than trying to take time off during the working day. I'll travel out to you in Tonbridge, Capel or Five Oak Green at whatever time suits — just tell me what works and I'll fit around it.
Naming a guardian for children under 18 is one of the most important parts of a will for any young family. The guardian only takes over if both parents have died, and you can name backups in case your first choice can't act. Before our appointment, have a conversation about who you'd want — usually a sibling, close friend, or grandparent — and ideally check they're willing. You'll also want to think about how money is held for the children until they're old enough to inherit; I'll talk you through the options when we meet.
Absolutely — most of my older clients much prefer to talk through these things in their own home rather than travelling to an office, and family members are welcome to be present if that's helpful. I'm happy to coordinate the appointment around relatives travelling in from further afield, including evenings or weekends if that makes life easier. For clients with mobility difficulties or who simply find an unfamiliar setting stressful, a home visit makes the whole conversation far less daunting.
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.
