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Trust and inheritance disputes

The Commercial Litigation department, although primarily commercially based, also advises individual clients of the firm and estates in relation to all contentious trust and contentious probate matters.

Partners Simon Pedley and Nicola Marchant are the only two solicitors in Manchester to belong to the prestigious Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists. Simon is also a fully qualified solicitor-advocate, and has appeared in substantial trials in the Chancery Division of the High Court in contested trust and probate matters. Simon and Nicola and their team have an exceptionally wide range of experience, almost certainly unrivalled outside London.

In this field, given the firm's substantial private client base, the department has amassed considerable and unrivalled expertise in the North of England, and can provide clients with succinct, cost-effective advice, backed up by substantial resource and a wealth of experience. Our team of contentious probate solicitors also work with colleagues in our Trust and Estate Planning department to ensure our clients receive the full range of expertise available in the firm which might be required by the particular circumstances of their dispute.

We understand that when clients become embroiled in disputes involving wills or other inheritance claims these are often very sensitive issues. We are always aware of the nature of the work we are dealing with and advise our clients in a professional and sensitive manner at all times.

Our experience

Our experience includes:

  • Acting for claimants, executors and beneficiaries in an extremely wide variety of claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, on estates of all sizes, including those of household names.
  • Acting in contentious probate matters, where wills have been disputed on ground of lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence, non est factum, proprietary estoppel and others.
  • Actions to determine the correct interpretation of badly-drafted wills.
  • Acting on contested claims to replace trustees and executors.
  • Applications to court for guidance/directions by trustees and executors.
  • Disputes between trustees.
  • Representing executors in commercial litigation matters affecting estates, including company disputes, partnership disputes, disputes regarding the ownership of land and actions to recover possessions of estate property.
  • Disputes between cohabitees of property.
  • Rectification of trust deeds.
  • Advising executors and beneficiaries in estates where claims have been made for relief from forfeiture by the killers of the deceased.
  • Professional negligence claims arising from all aspects of wills and probate.

To speak with a member of our team specialising in trust and inheritance disputes, please call 0844 980 1437 or send an email. We are available to take your call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week.