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Signum · Valoren’s own specialist desk

The specialist desk.

Most of what Valoren does, you do yourself — the records, the walkthroughs, a will drafted from your own answers. This page is for the moments that want more: a professional outcome, prepared for you and coordinated through named regulated professionals, with the scope and the fee fixed before you commit.

Intake is free. If you do not need us, we will tell you.

23 published services · fixed fee, shown before you commit · estate administration from £1,450, an assessment band · England & Wales

SignumSPECIMEN
Service engagement memo
Service · Single lasting power of attorney

A named specialist drafts and registers your Lasting Power of Attorney.

ScopeLPAs & advance decisions
Fee£395 + £92 OPG fee
RouteRoster specialist
QuoteFixed, in writing, before you commit
Signum
The specialist desk
Prepared
Standard Index Group● Fixed fee
§1

Three doors. Most people only need the first.

Nothing on this page duplicates what you already hold. Start with the door that matches what you have today; the third exists for the work that needs a professional’s hands.

Door one
Already yours.
If you hold The Household Continuity Dossier or The Estate Standard Seal, the records, the Advisor, the walkthroughs and the annual cycle are already included — nothing on this page duplicates them.
The Household Continuity Dossier £195 first year → £99/year · The Estate Standard Seal £495 → £199/year
See what your tier includes
Door two
A pack does it.
One situation, one prepared pack, one price — the Executor’s First Hour, Caring for a Parent, a will drafted from your own answers.
Executor's First Hour £179 · Caring for a Parent £79 · A will £149
See the packs
Door three
The desk takes it over.
Where the work needs a professional’s hands — drafted instruments, registrations, support through an estate’s administration. Fixed fee, assessed at intake — carried out by the desk, with every reserved step prepared and settled by the named regulated professional whose authorisation covers the work.
23 published services · estate administration from £1,450, an assessment band · intake free
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§2

The register.

Every published engagement, grouped, with its fee shown before you commit. The prices on this page render from the same register the desk works from — nothing here is typed by hand.

Every price is the total you pay — VAT, where it applies, is included. Court and registry fees are passed through at cost, and always shown before you commit.

The price, against the alternatives
A solicitor’s hourly meter
£200–£450/hr + VAT
No scope and no cap — the fee is known when the work stops. Every engagement on this register is fixed in writing before you commit.
A high-street will with a trust in it
£500–£2,500+
The band a firm quotes for the drafting alone. Here it is one fee on its row, drafted from your instructions and solicitor-reviewed.
Grant-only help from a firm
£900–£3,500 + VAT
The market band for obtaining the grant. Here the fee is an assessment band, assessed at the free intake and quoted fixed in writing before any work begins.
How fees are set
ContentsTap a group to narrow the register, then tap a service to go straight to its row.
The work itself

What a prepared pack looks like.

An engagement ends in finished instruments and a plain-English account of what was done. Two specimen pages from a completion pack — the cover of the finished object, and the explainer a family actually reads. Details neutralised.

Specimen cover of a Signum estate completion pack — 'Your Estate Plan', prepared and reviewed, details neutralised
The cover — signed off, dated, reviewed
Specimen page from a completion pack: 'Your Estate Plan — Explained', the plain-English account of every instrument
The explainer — every instrument, in plain English

Wills

The document itself, from a simple will to trust structures.
Available now
Trust will — single
A will containing a discretionary or life-interest trust, drafted from your instructions and solicitor-reviewed.
£795
Instruct this — £795
Available now
Trust wills — mirror
The same, as a matching pair for a couple — each a complete will.
£1,195
Instruct this — £1,195

LPAs & advance decisions

Authority for the years you may not be able to give it.
Available now
Single lasting power of attorney
One LPA — property & affairs or health & welfare — drafted from your instructions, checked, and registered with the Office of the Public Guardian.
£395
+ £92 OPG fee at cost
Instruct this — £395
Available now
Both LPAs, one person
Both documents for one person, prepared together so the appointments and instructions agree.
£645
+ £184 OPG fees at cost
Instruct this — £645
Available now
Couple bundle — four LPAs
All four documents for a couple, prepared and cross-checked as a set.
£1,095
+ £368 OPG fees at cost
Instruct this — £1,095
Available now
Advance decision (living will)
An advance decision to refuse treatment, drafted to sit correctly alongside a health & welfare LPA.
£245
£195 with any LPA
Instruct this — £245
Available now
Attorney operation pack
For a newly acting attorney: bank and provider registrations mapped, a decision log, and an expenses ledger — set up properly from day one.
£295
Instruct this — £295

Trusts

Created properly, run properly, filed on time.
Available now
Lifetime trust deed
A discretionary, life-interest or disabled person's trust, prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, with HMRC trust registration included.
£1,395
Instruct this — £1,395
Available now
Declaration of trust
Records who owns what share of a property — fixed or floating — before it ever needs to be argued. The deed itself is prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, inside the same engagement.
£395
Instruct this — £395
Available now
Trust registration (TRS)
Your trust registered with HMRC's Trust Registration Service, correctly and on time.
£295
Instruct this — £295
Available now
Trust tax return (SA900)
The trust's self-assessment return, prepared and filed.
£395
£295 with annual administration
Instruct this — £395
Available now
Ten-year and exit charges
The ten-year anniversary or exit calculation done properly, and the IHT100 form filed with HMRC.
£950
£1,450 where tax is payable
Instruct this — £950
Available now
Deed of variation
Redirects an inheritance within two years of a death. The inheritance-tax and capital-gains elections are included as standard, and the deed is prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it.
£795
£1,295 complex
Instruct this — £795

Inheritance-tax planning

Legitimate planning, documented so it survives scrutiny.
Available now
Gifting programme
A lifetime gifting plan with the seven-year clock mapped — and the gift ledger your executor will one day be asked for.
£695
+ £195/yr ledger
Instruct this — £695
Available now
Charitable giving & the 36% reduced rate
The calculation that qualifies your estate for the lower 36% inheritance-tax rate once a tenth of it goes to charity — worked out, and drafted to claim it.
£645
Instruct this — £645

Pensions & later life

The overlooked estate — pensions, care, and the 2027 change.
Available now
Pension death-benefit claim administration
The forms chased, the evidence gathered, and the scheme's own options set out factually — administrative support only. Which option to take is never a decision we make for you.
£495
administrative support only — never advice on which option to take
Instruct this — £495

Deputyship & Court of Protection

When capacity is lost without an LPA in place.
Quoted by email — short intake, no call needed
Court-authorised gifting for someone who's lost capacity
Getting the Court of Protection's permission to make gifts on behalf of someone who can no longer decide for themselves. The application is prepared and conducted by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it; the clinical assessment and the court fee are inside the quoted fee, not extra.
from £3,450
quoted
Instruct this — from £3,450

Estate administration add-ons

The pieces of an administration, priced singly.
Available now
Statutory creditor notices
Section 27 notices placed in The Gazette and the local paper, protecting the executor from unknown claims.
£95
+ notice costs at cost
Instruct this — £95
Available now
Formal estate accounts
Estate accounts prepared for the beneficiaries' approval — the document that closes an administration cleanly.
£795
Instruct this — £795
Available now
Estate tax returns in administration
The estate's income-tax and capital-gains position during administration, prepared and filed.
£495
per return
Instruct this — £495

Property (title & tenancy)

Title work after a death, priced by the piece.
Available now
Deceased joint proprietor (DJP) title update
Updating the Land Registry title after a joint owner dies — including the second-trustee appointment a restricted title sometimes requires, which a bare filing would miss.
£145
Instruct this — £145
Available now
Property assent (AS1)
Transferring the deceased's property into a beneficiary's name once grant is issued — checked against the mortgage, insurance and title traps that catch DIY attempts, and executed by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers the instrument.
£695
Instruct this — £695

Digital estate

Crypto and digital assets — recorded so an executor can actually reach them.
Available now
Crypto & digital-asset estate structuring (pre-death)
A worksheet recording where your crypto is and how an executor would reach it — solicitor-reviewed, never holding your seed phrase or keys ourselves, location and route only.
£445
templated custody worksheet + access-instruction drafting, solicitor-reviewed — excludes will/LPA clauses and tax advice
Instruct this — £445

Probate & estate administration

When an estate must actually be administered.

The desk gathers, values, chases and schedules; the papers a grant application is founded on — and the inheritance-tax account behind them — are prepared and settled by a solicitor, inside the same engagement. The figures below are assessment bands; your own fee is quoted fixed, in writing, before any work begins, assessed at intake — online or by call.

Grant of probate only
Obtaining the grant of representation — you handle the estate yourself once it's issued.
£1,450–£1,850
Full estate administration — straightforward
The whole matter, end to end: grant, assets collected, debts settled, estate distributed.
£3,450–£4,950
Full estate administration — complex or taxable
Estates with inheritance tax, property portfolios, business interests or cross-border elements.
£5,950–£8,950
IHT400 account only
The full inheritance-tax account prepared and delivered, where that's the one piece you need done properly.
from £4,950
§3The mechanism, not a clock

How an engagement runs.

Four steps, in the order they happen. No response-time theatre — the promise is the shape of the work: a free intake, a written scope, a fixed fee, and finished instruments at the end.

IIntake.
Free, in writing, no appointment. You tell us the situation; we tell you honestly whether it needs the desk at all.
IIScope.
A fixed fee and a written scope before you commit to anything.
IIIPreparation.
The desk prepares; where regulation requires, the work is concluded and signed by named regulated professionals.
IVDelivery.
Finished instruments, and a clear record of what was done.
§4

When you don’t need us.

The boundary is deliberate. What we do, and what we refuse to do, drawn explicitly — because the fastest way to lose a family’s trust is to sell them something they did not need.

Valoren doesCoordinate. Register. Prepare. Dispatch.
Valoren does not
Advise. Hold funds. Act as a fiduciary.
  • Provide regulated financial, legal, or tax advice
  • Recommend specific investments or products
  • Hold client money, securities, or assets
  • Act as an executor, attorney, or trustee for you

The boundary keeps Valoren honest — and keeps you protected.

§5

Form help is free. It stays free.

79 government-form walkthroughs — probate, inheritance tax, registration — free, no account, no card. If a form is all you need, that is all you need.

IHT400Inheritance Tax accountFree walkthrough
PA1PProbate application (with a will)Free walkthrough
BSP1Bereavement Support PaymentFree walkthrough
IHT401Domicile outside the UK (and IHT401a: long-term UK residence)Free walkthrough
All 79 walkthroughs
FAQ

The desk, questions answered.

Usually not — and we say so. Straightforward estates run on records and walkthroughs; the free intake exists to tell you which side of that line you are on before any money moves.
From the published register. The fee is fixed and agreed in writing before the engagement opens — there is no hourly meter, and anything outside the scope is quoted before it happens, never after.
The desk prepares the instruments and coordinates the matter; where regulation requires a qualified professional, the work is concluded and signed by named regulated professionals.
Anything that needs a court, a dispute, or regulated financial advice goes to the right professional — introduced honestly, not absorbed.

The boundary section above is the full list, and it is deliberate.
Yes — so you never re-state facts you have already recorded. Nothing is shared with the desk until you choose to share it.
Keep them. The desk prepares and organises; plenty of engagements end with a pack your own solicitor takes forward.

STEP and the Chartered Institute of Taxation both keep public directories of independent advisers — neither pays Valoren a referral fee.
Boundary

Signum is Valoren's own desk — when you instruct Signum, you are instructing us, and this page tells you so rather than dressing it up as an independent recommendation. Valoren is not itself an SRA- or FCA-regulated firm; where regulation requires a qualified professional, the work is concluded and signed by named regulated professionals. Guidance on this page is not legal, tax or financial advice.

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The broader system
An engagement is one door in a larger record.

The desk prepares an outcome. Valoren's household record is what makes the next one cheaper — the facts already held, the people already named, nothing re-stated.

Continuity layer

What this becomes inside Valoren

This page is one part of a larger system.

A document decides what happens once. Valoren's 33 records cover everything your executor needs to actually act — held current, visible to the people who need them.

Kept current for you

Tax thresholds change. Pension rules change. Family circumstances change.

Your records system updates the relevant outputs when they do — no need to redo this.

Surfaced when it matters

The right document for the right moment. Day-one of a bereavement. A capacity event. An executor's first hour.

Valoren already knows what to prepare.

Visible to the people who need it

Your trusted person sees what you've chosen to share, when you've chosen to share it.

No password handover. No "where are the documents." A real continuity layer above your will.

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