Andy Bridge

Item: Higgs LLP
Author: Douglas Walker

Senior Estate Manager - Probate

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About me

"I am a probate lawyer who regularly deals with high value estates and experience in dealing with foreign, business and agricultural assets and claiming appropriate inheritance tax reliefs”

I have been at Higgs now for just over nine years and I have always felt a sense of pride in the firm I work for and it’s reputation. The work I do is always varied and sometimes challenging.

The nature of the job I do means you could be dealing with anything and you need to be able to work through problems and situations you haven’t come across before on a regular basis and this means there is always something new to learn.

Expertise

Wills, trusts, probate

Probate and estate administration

Experience

Managed to retrospectively claim a transferrable Inheritance Tax Nil Rate Band despite the claim being 5 years out of time.
Completed an estate administration which had been half administered by an executor who subsequently passed away without keeping any records of the administration he had completed.
Completed an inheritance tax account and obtained a grant of probate for a family that had undertook various forms of lifetime gifting to make use of allowances and business property relief

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My hero

Jan Frodeno

Favourite quote

"Don’t aim at being consistently great. Aim to be great at being consistent" – Steve Magness

Favourite food

Steak

Favourite place

Sandwell Valley

"I would like to thank you very much for that and also for all the hard work that you have undertaken on my behalf over the past couple of years.”

Douglas Walker

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