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About Us
We are based in easily accessible and modern offices in Lichfield near the city railway station, with plenty of car parking available. However, we know that it's not always convenient for you to visit us at set times, so we can offer home or office visits and are also flexible with appointments outside of the usual office hours. We have facilities to hold telephone conferences and Skype meetings.
At Four Oaks Legal Services, we specialise in providing comprehensive legal services to individuals, as well as new and established businesses, their directors and owner/managers. Our aim is to be clearly different by providing good, concise and commercially sensible legal services and guidance. We work on fixed or capped fees whenever possible.
Four Oaks Legal Services is an independent law firm that trades alongside Four Oaks Financial Services Limited. The benefit to our clients is that when financial advice is needed alongside legal advice, these services are available under one roof.
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News
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Disposing of Personal Items in your WillDuring our lifetime, we collect many personal items (or chattels as we lawyers like to call them), such as our breakfast bowl, jewellery, cars and, perhaps even, works of art. We dispose of some of these items too, as they either wear out; cease to be of interest to us or when we have...Read more -
“Lost” Wills following Closure of Law FirmIt is not uncommon through the passage of time, that law firms re-locate or sadly close down. This can result in other law firms inheriting their Will Banks and on occasions, this can sometimes result in the original Will Writer not knowing the current location of their Will. The law firm who “inherits” the Will...Read more -
Homemade Wills Are Ok? Aren’t They?We often get asked to comment on Wills that a person has drawn up themselves or has prepared via an internet based provider. The number one question asked is “Are they legally valid?”. The second is “Are they worth the paper they are written on?”. To be legally valid, a Will must be written on...Read more -
Chulo to Join the Ranks!You’ll all know what dog lovers we are at Four Oaks Legal and you’ll remember that just over 3 years ago, Director Beckie Head welcomed Greek rescue dog, Lena, into their home. Lena is, of course, a regular visitor to the office, and often accompanies Beckie on her home visits too. She has become...Read more -
Lloyds Weren’t Banking on This!Lloyds Banking Group has discovered hundreds of Wills within their archives that they did not know they had. Revealed by the Financial Times, the mistake has left Lloyds hurrying to re-unite around 9,000 families with their loved one’s Wills. The fact of the Wills not coming to light until now may mean that families could...Read more -
Probate FeesThe Law Society has welcomed the lapse of a planned increase in probate fees as a result of parliament being suspended. Fees would have risen from the fixed amounts of £215 (personal applications) or £155 (Solicitor applications), to a sliding scale of up to £6,000 depending on the size of the estate. The motion to...Read more -
Probate Registry Office ClosureHM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has announced that the Probate Registry Office in Birmingham will be closing at the end of the month. This is the first announced closure with further closures expected across the country as the Probate Service attempts to undertake more work electronically. There will therefore no longer be a...Read more -
'Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put a ring on it…The rise of cohabiting couples has continued in the UK, with the numbers growing by 25% to 3.4 million families from 2008 to 2018. Cohabiting couples however still only represent 18 per cent of the UK's 19.1 million families. Marriages and civil partnerships remain the most common structure and, as such, represent two-thirds of all...Read more -
Modern Family Structures and Unintended ConsequencesWhen couples talk to me about making a Will, they often ask what would happen if they both died together in a car crash-who would inherit their assets if they didn’t have a Will. Answer-in the legal world, where the order of death is uncertain, the older partner is assumed to have died first. A...Read more -
Probate Fees UpdateThe proposed considerable increases in Probate Court fees have yet to materialise, despite concerns that these would be brought in on the 1st April 2019. With Parliamentary timetabling, the earliest these could be reviewed would be the start of the Autumn session. However, there will be an increase in the price of obtaining a...Read more