Will writing, LPAs and probate in Wadhurst
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. The signing visit is included in the quoted price wherever you are on that list — 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 happen mostly on the phone, at whatever time of day suits you, and the signing happens over a cup of tea at your own kitchen table — evenings and weekends if that's what works, with no office visits and no rushed appointments.
Services available in Wadhurst
Every fee is quoted in writing before you commit, and will and LPA prices include a signing visit to your home in Wadhurst or the surrounding villages.
Wills & related documents
Will Writing
From £225
A will drafted from scratch for your circumstances, signed and witnessed properly at your own kitchen table.
Read more →Mirror Wills for Couples
£400 per couple
A coordinated pair of wills for a couple whose wishes broadly match, drafted together so they agree with each other.
Read more →Trust Wills
Price on consultation
Ringfence your share of the family home so your partner can go on living there and your children still inherit it.
Read more →Letter of Wishes
£35 with a will / £85 standalone
The personal guidance that sits alongside your will — funeral preferences, bequests, and notes for guardians.
Read more →Will Review
£95
A read-through of the will you already have, whoever wrote it, and an honest answer on whether it still works.
Read more →Codicils
From £125
A signed, witnessed addition to an existing will, where the change is straightforward enough not to need a new one.
Read more →Powers of attorney & health decisions
Lasting Powers of Attorney
From £275 (plus OPG fees)
Let people you trust make health or financial decisions for you if you ever can't make them yourself.
Read more →LPA Reviews & Revocations
From £95
Check, change or revoke a registered LPA that no longer says what you need it to say.
Read more →General Power of Attorney
From £195
Financial authority for someone who has capacity now — a spell abroad, a stay in hospital, a property sale.
Read more →Advance Decision (Living Will)
£195 one person / £300 per couple
A written, legally binding refusal of specified medical treatment, so your wishes are known if you cannot say them.
Read more →Probate & estate administration
Executor & Estate Review
£195
What the will means, what you actually have to do, and whether a grant of probate is needed at all.
Read more →Estate Administration Support
Quoted for the work agreed
Help with as much or as little of an administration you're running yourself.
Read more →Comprehensive Estate Administration
From £2,500
Everything from registering the death to distributing the estate, apart from the Grant application, which stays with the executor.
Read more →Other documents
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.”
Property Trust Wills in the Wadhurst area
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:
- Couples on a second marriage or blended families, where each partner wants to be certain their own children inherit their half of the home.
- Couples concerned about future care costs — once your share is held in trust, it doesn’t form part of the surviving partner’s estate for means-testing in the same way an outright inheritance would.
- Families with a substantial Wealden property where the home represents most of the inheritance and you want to be sure it reaches the next generation intact, not diverted by a later remarriage or a change of mind.
One quoted price covers both wills 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 part of the job. We start with a free no-obligation phone call, and once you decide to go ahead the signing visit is included in that same quoted price — across Wadhurst itself and all of the surrounding villages. We’ll work through the choices at whatever pace suits you, on the phone and on paper, before anything is drafted. 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.
Questions from Wadhurst clients
Which villages around Wadhurst do you cover?
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; the signing visit is 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.
Property values around Wadhurst are well above the national average — does that affect how I should plan my will?
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.
Do you offer evening or weekend appointments in Wadhurst?
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.
We've both got grown-up children from previous marriages — can a Property Trust Will protect their inheritance?
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.
I'm trying to help my parents in Ticehurst or Lamberhurst put their affairs in order — can you visit them?
Of course. The questions come on paper and over the phone, which for older parents is almost always the kindest way to do it — no appointment to get ready for, and as long as they like to think about each answer. Then I come out to Ticehurst, Lamberhurst, Wadhurst or anywhere in between for the signing, and you're very welcome to sit in if that helps. I take my time, explain everything in plain English, and nobody is asked to decide anything on the spot.
What does it cost to get everything sorted in one go?
Most couples choose the Complete Peace of Mind Package — mirror wills, both types of LPA for both partners, and letters of wishes. That's six professionally drafted documents in one process, and it works out cheaper than arranging each piece separately. I'll give you the exact figure on our first phone call, and OPG registration fees are payable separately to the government.