Emma Thorpe

Emma's expertise includes:

• Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Probate
• Trusts
• Wills

Emma's recent work highlights include:

• Preparing Wills and giving related estate planning advice for a married couple where one spouse was terminally ill. This included a transfer of property between both spouses to reduce Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax.

• Advising a family on the preparation of a Deed of Variation to reduce the Inheritance Tax liability on the estate by £120,000.

• Preparing Wills to include Discretionary Trusts as a means of utilising the availability of Business Property Relief and reducing the estate’s Inheritance Tax liability.

• Acting in the administration of an estate involving a single Joint Will made by a married couple.

• Acting on an Intestacy matter where DNA tests were required to validate the estate beneficiaries.

Other information:

• Member of STEP (The Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners)