The Costs

You will never have to pay us, but you will authorise us to be paid on your behalf.

The contract we ask you to sign makes provision for us to be paid our fee in the form of a percentage of your entitlement. This ensures that we will only be paid if your claim is successful and that our fees will always be in proportion to your share of the inheritance - ensuring our fees cannot grow larger than your part of the inheritance.

Personal Debts

The administrator will pay all debts from an estate before heirs receive their share; this will naturally reduce the value of the remaining assets. In the unlikely event that there are more debts than assets, the estate is declared insolvent. In such cases, you will not inherit any assets or debts, and you will not have to pay us a fee.

Tax

Any tax due on an estate is calculated by the administering solicitor, ratified by the Collector of Taxes and paid before final distribution, resulting in the money you receive being clear of all personal taxes.

The Amount of Money You Will Receive

The total amount that any beneficiary is going to receive is dependent on four main factors.

• The probate law of the country in which the person has died
• The number of beneficiaries involved
• Your degree of relationship to the deceased person
• The value of the estate after administration

As these values are all variables and individually worked out for each case, it is only possible to calculate the amount that any one heir will receive just before distribution. For this reason we cannot tell you how much you might receive until all our research is complete and the estate's assets have been collected and liabilities paid.