If you're responsible for administering you or your loved one’s trust, we can guide you through this long and difficult process to ensure your duties are carried out correctly.
Administering a trust successfully is a serious, time-consuming responsibility. Depending on what kind of trust you're managing, you may be responsible for preparing trust accounts and ensuring full legal and tax compliance, among other tasks. Failing to fulfil these duties to the standard required can lead to claims from other beneficiaries, or leave you personally liable.
To help you administer trusts with absolute confidence, our expert trust solicitors are specialists in this area of law, and can help manage these vitally important tasks on your behalf, such as income tax reporting and trustee administration, providing important advice on your legal powers and responsibilities as a trustee at the same time.
Through decades of expertise as the local authority on administering trusts, Giles Wilson provide total peace of mind no matter what kind of arrangement is in place, from bare trusts and life interest trusts, to discretionary trusts and mixed trusts.
By working closely with you to simplify this intricate procedure, we help take the stress off your shoulders, and achieve a smooth and successful outcome – merits that make us the trust solicitors to count on whatever your circumstance.
Our team of specialist solicitors in Essex have a wealth of experience administering trusts of all types. Whatever your circumstance, trust us to help you resolve it.
Trusts can be a mystery to many people, often with a notion that they promise unlimited benefits for estate planning and asset protection purposes.
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The expertise of our solicitors is regularly recognised by some of the profession’s most distinguished organisations. As well as being a member of a number of Law Society schemes, we have won awards at the Law Society Excellence Awards, the Halsbury Legal Awards and the Modern Law Awards.
We have also received recognition in the form of the Lexcel mark of quality, a Legal 500 listing and a place on the shortlist of The Lawyer’s Boutique Firm of the Year.
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