Probate Made Simple: The Essential Guide to Saving Money and Getting the Most Out of Your Solicitor

Andrew Komarnyckyj is the Director of a niche legal practice delivering innovative legal services to the public and to other professionals. He had a successful career in sales and marketing prior to qualifying as a solicitor. He studied law by correspondence course while working full time, and was awarded two prizes for achieving the highest marks nationally in one of his law exams. During his legal career he has been the head of the Probate Department for two leading West Yorkshire firms of solicitors, at one of which he became a partner. He has over 15 years legal experience working exclusively in the field of wills, trusts, tax planning and probate. He left conventional legal employment in March 2009 in order to establish Wills, Probate and More, www.willsprobateandmore.co.uk, his own niche legal services company, and to be free to comment on the legal profession as an outsider. He now divides his time between legal practise and writing.

Introduction 1. Understanding Probate - What Probate Means 2. Probate in a Nutshell 3. Work That Does Not Require the Input of a Solicitor 4. Work That May Require the Input of a Solicitor 5. Summary of Your Options 6. Pros and Cons of the Three Options 7. Recommendation on Which Option to Choose 8. Saving Money if You Choose Option 1 - Giving Everything to a Solicitor 9. Saving Money if You Choose Option 2 - Doing Some of the Work Yourself and Giving the Legally-Challenging Work to a Solicitor: a Step-by-Step Guide 10. Saving Money if You Choose Option 3 - Doing Everything Yourself Appendices Appendix 1: How to Estimate the Time it Will Take Your Solicitor to do the Work That You Instruct Them to Do Appendix 2: Bank of Precedent Letters Appendix 3: Specimen of Estate Accounts Disclaimer Index

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"Probate Made Simple" gives readers the information that will enable them to negotiate away hundreds or thousands of dollars in legal fees and still get the most from their attorney.