Can anyone recommend a solicitor for a will and POA in Glasgow

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Or the southside?

Thanks

Had a good experience with Jaqueline at Inksters Glasgow when parents were writing wills and POAs. Not sure how they compare price wise with others but parents found them good to deal with and everything was very well explained.

I can absolutely recommend that you don't use Thompsons. They were horrendous when my mum died suddenly and I was chasing them for months, her work was also struggling to get in touch with them and couldn't release her final salary etc. (All minor in the grand scheme of things I know but they were a nightmare to deal with).

Harper Macleod have always been brilliant for anything we have used them for, and really reasonable

Free wills month in Glasgow this month. Email the Free Will Month to get a list of participating solicitors in your area.

There are charities online offering free wills, we did one a few years ago and have the option to leave the charity something or not. POA you can do online for around £82 per POA via GovUK. These may be an option unless you have complicated circumstances.

The rules around POAs are different in Scotland and they can't be done through GovUK. There are ways of doing them yourself but it's not straightforward.

Jim Inglis at Morton Fraser Macroberts is excellent:
https://www.mfmac.com/our-people/james-inglis/

Thanks all

Can I hijack and ask roughly how much it costs for POA only? My mum asked me to set this up for her. I thought I would be able to draft something using a template online then register but realise the rules are different in Scotland vs England and Wales unfortunately. She's on pension credit and I think she'll be shocked at the solicitor fees for this.

We paid £350 in 2023 for solicitor to do it, there were two of us who with poa.

Thanks @ThreeMagicNumber. I don't think my DM has any idea it's so expensive so I don't think she'll proceed any further.

It is really worth doing as it can make life much easier.

We've just been looking at this elsewhere in Scotland and were getting quotes for just under a grand for mirror wills and POA for a couple. A relative in the west of Scotland applied just over a year ago for POA and is still waiting - apparently processing delays of a year are to be expected 😲
As others have pointed out, in Scotland it is not simple to DIY a POA, for one thing you have to have your competence verified by a solicitor or GP - and try getting to see a GP...

That doesn't sound very good

It’s so worth while though compared to the absolute nightmare of trying to set up guardianship.
if person has very little savings, doesn’t own their home, has added their trusted person as a 3rd party to bank account already, main income is pension credit or state pension AND they are generally agreeable to advice and would accept care if it were suggested… then you may have only a moderately difficult time if they lose capacity and are no longer able to make decisions for themselves.
if any of those don’t apply then really, do do it, it costs the same as the first meeting to set up guardianship.

honestly I think esp with home ownership people should be setting up poas with their mortgage and life insurance.

We used Ross Rogers in Rutherglen for our wills and POA a couple of years ago. It's a company that I have had dealings with for many years both personally and through a previous boss (he was selling his house and I was taking calls on his behalf). From memory it cost us around £1000 and the POA took about 8 months to come through.

Edited to add that my previous boss's dad was diagnosed with dementia with no POA in place and it was a nightmare for the family because he didn't have the faculty to authorise others to act in his interest.

Helpful comments here thanks. I work in a hospital so am actively aware of how helpful the medical side of POAs are.
I’m just wondering if I can try and draft one myself for my DM though. There are some templates online that I could adapt surely. What’s the benefit using a solicitor to draft it? My DM has very little savings, is on pension credit and stays in a council house so I’m not sure where conflict may arise from the financial side of things.

Sorry the new app is taking a bit of getting used to. I’m ‘acutely’ aware, not actively!