Signum — the estate's legal work, at one fixed fee.
Wills, LPAs, trusts, tax returns and probate — quoted in writing before you instruct us.
- ✓Fixed fee, confirmed in writing
- ✓Free 20-minute intake, no obligation
- ✓Reserved work concluded by a named regulated professional
- ✓Never a percentage of the estate
When your family needs the file, it should already exist.
How it works
You instruct one piece of work, and it is scoped, priced and concluded properly. You deal with the desk throughout — nothing is explained twice.
Intake
You tell us what's needed. A short intake — no documents to gather yet, and no charge for it.
A fixed written quote
We scope the actual matter and put a fixed fee in writing. It's agreed before anything is instructed, never a percentage of the estate.
The work
Prepared by the desk and concluded by the named professional whose authorisation covers it. Reserved work is always done by the regulated party.
Kept current
Optional. Where a matter leaves records worth maintaining, we keep them live — reviewed and refreshed, year after year.
What it costs
Fixed fees, published before you ask for them. Every matter is scoped first and the figure confirmed in writing — never a percentage of the estate, never an hourly meter.
Fixed-fee services
£95 — £1,395
Lasting powers of attorney, trusts and deeds of variation, estate and trust tax returns, executor work. Twenty-two published, each at a single fixed fee — drafted by the desk, with any deed prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers it.
See the register →Wills
£149 — £229
A single will, or mirror wills for a couple. Drafted from your instructions — an unreserved service, and one the desk does itself.
See the wills →Estate administration
£1,450 — £8,950
Assessment band · assessed free, quoted in writing
Grant only, or the whole matter end to end. The desk gathers, values, chases and schedules; the papers the grant application is founded on are prepared and settled by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers that step, inside the same engagement.
See the bands →Each figure covers Signum's engagement for that work, including the qualified professional's element; VAT, where it applies, is included, and court and registry fees are passed through at cost. Records can also be built and kept for you — a one-off build, then an optional yearly review. Those tiers are on the pricing page.
Who does what, on the record
Signum is the specialist practice of the Standard Index Group. One engagement, one written quote — and the engagement summary names, matter by matter, who is acting and under which regulation.
- ✓Locate, gather and index your records to the Estate Standard 2026
- ✓Chase missing structural details — a missing policy number, an unrecorded account
- ✓Draft your will or lasting power of attorney from your instructions (an unreserved service)
- ✓Gather what an administration needs — assets, debts, valuations, dates, beneficiaries
- ✓Chase the institutions and prepare the inventories, chronology and factual schedules
- ✓Issue a Readiness Letter: what exists, what's missing, what to do next
- ✓Explain, in general terms, how inheritance tax, probate and LPAs work
- ✓Coordinate the matter end to end, and keep your records current year after year
- →Preparing the papers a grant application is founded on (a reserved legal activity)
- →The inheritance-tax account, where one is needed to found that application
- →The steps that turn on legal judgment — entitlement, capacity, a trust, a disputed will
- →Deeds relating to the estate — a deed of variation, a declaration of trust — generally reserved
- →Anything before a court — a caveat, a contested will, a Court of Protection application
- →Personal financial recommendations — arranged separately, with a regulated adviser
- →Acting as your executor, attorney or trustee — Signum never takes the role
You engage Signum once, for one written fee. Most of the work an estate needs — gathering, valuing, chasing institutions, drafting a will or a lasting power of attorney — needs no licence, and the desk does it itself. Where a step is reserved or regulated — the papers a grant application is founded on, the inheritance-tax account behind it, a deed, anything before a court — it is prepared and settled by a solicitor or other qualified professional whose authorisation covers it, under their own regulator and their own complaints route, inside that same engagement. Personal recommendations on pensions, investments or insurance sit outside that engagement: they are arranged with a regulated financial adviser, separately. Your engagement summary names, matter by matter, who is acting and under which regulation. The regulated work is always done by the regulated party.
A free assistant that explains how it all works, drafts your will from your answers, and helps organise what you have — then hands anything that needs a solicitor or other qualified professional to the desk, where it is scoped and quoted inside one engagement. Personal recommendations on pensions, investments or insurance are arranged with a regulated financial adviser, separately.
- ✓Explains inheritance tax, probate, LPAs and the rest in plain terms
- ✓Drafts a will from your instructions (unreserved)
- ✓Helps organise and name your records to ES-2026
- ✓Flags what's missing and what to ask a professional about
It never makes a personal financial recommendation and never does reserved legal work itself — those steps are carried out by the qualified professional whose authorisation covers them, inside the same engagement.
Start with a 20-minute intake.
Free — a 20-minute call. We'll scope what's actually needed and tell you exactly what the work involves, and what it would cost, in writing. No obligation.
Book a 20-minute intake