Estate Planning Solicitors Belfast
Advice to help you plan how your assets and estate should be managed and passed on.
Estate planning advice
Estate planning allows you to consider how your assets and affairs should be dealt with during your lifetime and after your death.
O’Hare Solicitors advises clients in Belfast and across Northern Ireland on estate-planning arrangements designed around their individual circumstances, family and intentions.
What can estate planning involve?
Depending on your circumstances, estate planning may involve considering:
- Your existing will and whether it reflects your current wishes
- How you want assets to pass to family members or other beneficiaries
- Whether a trust may be appropriate
- The ownership and structure of particular assets
- Relevant inheritance-tax considerations
- How your estate-planning arrangements work together
The appropriate approach will depend on your assets, family circumstances and objectives.
Wills and estate planning
A properly drafted and up-to-date will is an important part of many estate plans. It records how you want your estate to be dealt with and who should be responsible for administering it.
Our Will Drafting service provides further information on preparing or reviewing a will.
Trusts
Trusts can be relevant in some estate-planning circumstances, including where a client wishes to make particular arrangements for assets or beneficiaries.
Whether a trust is appropriate, and the legal and tax consequences involved, will depend on the individual circumstances. Our solicitors can advise on the options relevant to your objectives.
Inheritance tax considerations
Tax can be an important consideration when planning an estate. Where relevant to the firm’s service, our solicitors can help clients understand the inheritance-tax considerations associated with their proposed arrangements.
Any tax-related recommendations should be based on the client’s circumstances and the applicable rules at the time advice is provided. We would always recommend seeking specialist tax advice.
Administration of an estate
Estate planning concerns arrangements made during a person’s lifetime. After a death, executors or personal representatives may require separate assistance administering the estate and obtaining the appropriate Grant of Representation.
Further information is available on our Administration of Estates page.
Speak to our estate planning solicitors
If you would like to review how your estate is arranged, contact O’Hare Solicitors in Belfast to discuss your circumstances and objectives.
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