Personal, professional estate planning across Wadhurst and the surrounding villages — at your kitchen table, on your schedule.
Wadhurst is a Wealden village on the East Sussex side of the Kent border, sitting between Tunbridge Wells and Crowborough with strong rail links to London. From my base I regularly visit clients in Ticehurst, Stonegate, and Lamberhurst. 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 Wadhurst 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 Wadhurst
“Emma came out to us in Stonegate one evening after my husband finished work and patiently walked us through a Property Trust Will for the cottage. She severed the joint tenancy as part of the same fee and posted the signed documents back the following week — all done over a pot of tea at our kitchen table.”
For many of the families I see in Wadhurst, Ticehurst, Stonegate and Lamberhurst, the bulk of the estate sits in a single Wealden home that has appreciated steadily over a long ownership. That makes how the house is held — and how it passes — the most consequential decision in the will, and it’s the conversation I have most often around this part of the High Weald.
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 continue living there for the rest of their life, while your share is ultimately protected for the people you want to inherit. It’s a particularly good fit for Wadhurst’s mix of long-settled couples and commuter families, where one partner often expects to outlive the other by many years and where children from earlier relationships are part of the picture. The trust gives certainty on both sides without forcing anyone to leave the house.
Typical situations where it’s the right call:
The fee is £595 per couple and it includes severance of joint tenancy — the legal step that changes how the property is held so the trust can actually take effect. Without that severance the trust simply doesn’t bite, so it’s not an extra to be added on later; it’s built into the price. We start with a free no-obligation phone call, and once you decide to go ahead the home visits are included in the £595 fee — across Wadhurst itself and all of the surrounding villages. We’ll work through the choices at your own kitchen table on whatever evening or weekend suits. Once the wills are drafted I bring them out for signing with a proper witness, and I keep copies on file in case anything needs to be revisited down the line.
I cover Wadhurst itself together with Ticehurst, Stonegate and Lamberhurst, and I'm happy to visit the smaller hamlets in between — Cousley Wood, Tidebrook, Best Beech Hill and Sparrows Green all sit comfortably inside the same catchment. There's no additional charge for travelling to any of these; home visits are part of the quoted price for every service. If you're slightly further out and not sure whether I cover your postcode, give me a ring and we'll sort it out on the phone.
It can make a real difference. In Wadhurst, Ticehurst and the surrounding villages the family home is usually the largest single asset in the estate, and for many couples it's worth more than the rest of their savings and investments combined. That changes the maths on inheritance tax, on means-testing for future care, and on how confident you can be that your share reaches the children you intend it to. A Property Trust Will is often the right answer because it ringfences your half of the house from the moment of first death.
Yes — I work seven days a week, including evenings, and there's no extra charge for an out-of-hours visit. A lot of Wadhurst clients commute into London during the week, so an early evening appointment once you're home from the train, or a Saturday morning at the kitchen table, often works much better than trying to find time during the working day. I'm happy to fit appointments around whatever suits — just say what works when we book the initial call and we'll find a slot that doesn't disrupt your week.
Yes, this is exactly the situation a Property Trust Will is designed for. In a second-marriage household, a standard will that leaves everything to the surviving partner relies entirely on that partner later passing it on as you'd hoped — which they may or may not do, intentionally or otherwise. A Property Trust Will ringfences your share of the home for your own children at the point of first death, while still giving your partner a legal right to live in the house for the rest of their life. Both sides of the family are looked after.
Of course — most of my clients prefer to talk these things through in their own front room, and for older parents that's almost always the kindest way to do it. I'll come to Ticehurst, Lamberhurst, Wadhurst or anywhere in between, and you're very welcome to sit in on the conversation if that helps. I take my time, explain everything in plain English, and never pressure anyone into a decision in the same meeting. If a follow-up visit is needed before signing, that's included too.
Most couples around Wadhurst 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.
