Will writing solicitor fees

Compare published UK solicitor fees for writing a will.

Funeral Cost Index captures the fees solicitor firms publish for drafting a will, preserving the source page for every row.

Will writing is outside the SRA Transparency Rules, so no firm is obliged to publish a price for it. Every row here is a voluntary disclosure, and a firm absent from this page has not published a figure — that is not the same as not offering the service, and it is not a compliance finding.

Captured rows
30
Fixed/range
20
Hourly disclosed
2
On request
8

Latest will-writing fee captures

These are the latest published will-writing fees captured from solicitors' own pages. A single will and a pair of mirror wills for a couple are priced differently, and firms do not label them consistently, so the source page stays one click away on every row.

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What this covers

A solicitor’s will-writing fee is normally a fixed price, which makes it one of the more comparable legal fees on this site. The common tiers are a single will, mirror wills for a couple, and a more involved will covering a trust or a business — priced separately, and not always distinguished on the page a fee is published on.

Will writing is not a reserved legal activity in England and Wales. Unregulated will writers may offer the same service, often for less, without the SRA regulation, professional indemnity cover and compensation arrangements that apply to the firms listed here. Every firm on this page is on the SRA register, and the row links to the page the price was read from.

A will is one of the two documents most people mean by planning ahead. The other is a lasting power of attorney, which takes effect while you are alive; and if you are weighing up paying for a funeral in advance, the prepaid funeral plan section sets plan prices against what a funeral actually costs today.

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