As many as one hundred thousand people every year are being charged excessive fees for Probate work. The extent of the overcharging is quite shocking. A high street bank recently quoted a fee of £19,044 for a case that was dealt with elsewhere for £7,245. In addition to overcharging their clients, banks and solicitors are routinely misleading bereaved families by telling them that they must use the firm named as executors in the Will to obtain Probate. This is completely untrue. Now an innovative new firm, Final Duties Ltd, has been set up to challenge the banks and solicitors monopoly of the Probate market and help bereaved families to stand up for their rights.
Final Duties is the UK’s first independent Probate broker cases are put out to tender to a panel of specialist Probate solicitors in order to obtain the most competitive quotation. If a bank or solicitor has been named in the Will as executor, Final Duties will become directly involved ion persuading them to renounce their appointment.
Final Duties was set up by Adam Walker a 49 year old management consultant as a direct result of the treatment he received following the death of his father. His co-director, Robert Sendall is a legal services marketing expert who as managing director of Live played a key role in breaking the solicitors monopoly of the conveyancing market during the 1990’s.
Commenting on the new business Adam Walker said
“It is quite wrong that recently bereaved people, many of whom are elderly and vulnerable, are being charged up to five times as much as they should be to obtain Probate. Final Duties is going to put a stop to this.
Very few people have the knowledge or the persistence or the desire to argue with a bank or solicitor about the cots of obtaining Probate particularly when they have just suffered bereavement. Final Duties is proud to fight to protect people from being overcharged.
I feel passionately that the bank and solicitors monopoly of the Probate market is unfair unjust and contrary to the public interest
There should be a law that prevents banks and solicitors from writing themselves into a Will as executors.”
If you think that you are in danger of being overcharged for Probate work or if you would like help in persuading a bank or solicitor named as executors in the Will to renounce their appointments then visit www.finalduties.co.uk or telephone 0800 731 8722.
For more information please visit: http://www.finalduties.co.uk
