Our Accounts team are responsible for all payments and Direct Debits and cover the following:

• Client Payments
• Direct Debits
• Tax Returns
• Setting up Trustee Accounts
• Commissions
• Stamp Duty Land Tax

Our Admin team ensure that our client’s legal documents are scanned onto our secure electronic document systems and transferred into our safe storage facility. 

Other tasks include:

• Printing & Packaging of Documents
• Point of Sale Documents
• Storage of all Documents Scanning
• Incoming / Outgoing Post

Our Conveyancing Department offers an efficient and personal service for all aspects of property work relating to our Trust and Probate matters. Clients will be assisted by a dedicated lawyer who will, build a relationship with them to help them understand what is required and assist them through each stage of the process. We also have good working relationships with external lawyers for matters that we do not handle in house.

Services included are:

• Transfer of Property to Trust 
• Sale / Purchase of Trust Property 
• Transfer of Property from Sole to Joint 
• Restrictions / Legal Charges 
• First Registration of Title 
• Registration of Title for Lost Deeds
• Trust of Land 
• Consents

Once assets enter a Trust then it has to be treated as such. An example of this is when a client dies and assets pass from the Will into the Trust or a sum assured from a Life Assurance policy held in Trust. Assets can also be paid into a Trust during the client’s lifetime.

Our Live Trust team undertake all work relating to a “live” Trust and hold and administer Trustee meetings, drafting all the relevant documents required by the Trustees and beneficiaries.

• Deeds of Removal / Appointment of Trustees and Beneficiaries
• Assignment of Existing Investments into Trust
• Investing from the Trust
• Trustee Meetings
• Loan Documents
• Trustee Bank Accounts
• Absolute Trusts
• Right to Reside
• Deeds of Variation (DOV)
• Prenuptial Agreements

Our marketing team are responsible for the marketing of the group of companies and the products and services we provide to our members.

The team use various marketing methods to advertise our businesses across all social media platforms, thereby ensuring that we deliver our message to the legal industry in an informative and often imaginative way.

They are also responsible for maintaining all company websites ensuring that they are up to date with new information and changes in legislation.

• Extranet Advice
  
• Adviser Websites
  
• Estate Planning Cartoons
  
• Rebranding Literature
  
• Advertising (Brochures, Adverts, Banners, Leaflets & Flyers)
  
• Business Stationery
  

Our New Entrants Team are the first point of contact for professionals wanting to join Countrywide and set them on their training path to becoming full Estate Planning Consultants.

The team undertakes the following:

• Setting up Advisers, Networks & Companies new to Countrywide
• Organising our training Courses
• Setting up Webinars
• Purchase of Software
• New members & access to the Extranet
• Adviser & Introducer Contracts
• PI Insurance
• Arranging meetings and appointments with Clive Ponder

Countrywide Tax & Trust Corporation Limited are experts in dealing with all aspects of Probate. Probate can be a complex and extremely time consuming process

Our specialist Probate Team have a sympathetic and patient approach when dealing with bereaved relatives and will happily arrange a visit to discuss the client’s  requirements in the comfort of their own home.

Unlike Solicitors and many other Legal companies who often charge an hourly rate, Countrywide provide a Fixed Fee Probate Service which is quoted in advance of any work being undertaken. This could be a considerable saving on the fees you would typically need to pay a high street Bank or Solicitor.

Once you have agreed to use our Probate service, you will be appointed your own Case Handler who will personally, look after your case and who will be your point of contact throughout the process. 

As part of our Probate Service, our team can also provide independent advice on the Will itself and may, under certain circumstances, recommend that a Deed of Variation be set up in order to vary the Will. This process would effectively ensure that the beneficiaries of the Will receive as much of their inheritance as possible, without having to pay out large chunks of it to the Inland Revenue in taxes.

This process must be executed within two years of death and needs to be with the agreement of all the beneficiaries.

• Probate enquiries
  
• Administration of Estates
  
• Grants of Probate
  
• Deeds of Variation 
  

Our Processing Team handles the following work:

• Drafting of Wills & Trusts
• Deeds of Severance
• Corrections and Amendments
• PA Cases
• Drafting of Assignments and Nominations
• Drafting of Lasting Powers of Attorney and registration of Lasting Powers of Attorney and EPAs
• Software training

Our Systems department and Software teams are responsible for the continuous upkeep and development of our in-house workflow systems and the Legal Document drafting software, Countrywide Legacy.  

They are also responsible for:

• Registrations
  
• System log-in Assistance
  
• System Errors (Countrywide In-house Systems Only)
  
• Countrywide Legacy Software
  
• Willmaker Direct Software