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Costs for Tipi Wills & Mediation

To find our costs, we do not ask you to send an enquiry first, register your personal details first, leave your telephone number or email first.  You won't have to hunt around this website for an eternity to find the costs nor need a diploma to figure them out.  We aim to provide clarity, transparency and very competitive prices. If there is anything you need to know please call or email info@tipiwills.co.uk and we will get back to you as soon as we can.  Our contact details are not hidden away, they are displayed fully at the top on every page and you will speak to a real person not choose a number to do so. 

The online service retains full advisory and consultation services.  You can be assured we provide a full professional service no matter how you deal with us.

Mediation  (Now Isle of Wight Mediation website coming soon)

Civil & Commercial Mediation

Facilitative & Transformative interpersonal mediation

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NEW  Empowered To Talk pre mediation

Preventative  De-escalation 

Difficult / Sensitive Agreement

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Where there is no monetary value and agreement or resolution is needed:

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We ask you to commit to a minimum charge of three hours:

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Each party pays:

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Family relations and disputes

relating to Wills & Estate Planning          £150 ph

Contentious Probate                               £200 ph

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SME Business workplace resolution      £150 ph

SME Business disputes/contract           £190 ph

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Medical workplace resolution                     £180 ph

Medical patient and healthcare disputes   £190 ph

Medical negligence disputes                     £200 ph

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Community Disputes                                  £190 ph

For further types of dispute resolution please contact us to discuss

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Mediations that lead to a further mediation (eg to agree a settlement, review a plan of action, monitor progress etc) will receive a 20% discount on the additional mediation. 

 

A half day mediation consists of 4 hours

 

A full day mediation consists of 8 hours

Participants may ask for breaks any time they wish.  Its your day.

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It is usual for payment for mediations to be paid 7 days prior to the mediation date. 

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Pro Bono mediations are sometimes available as a one to two hour time slot (but is subject to availability). These are agreed subject to need and circumstances and you are invited to contribute to costs if you can.  (Outside costs will be chargeable such as venue hire and travel).  Can be in person or by zoom.   Please enquire.

Mediation facilities are becoming mandatory in numbers of circumstances and its use continues to grow and so the demand on mediators continues to grow.  Consider how taking advantage now of this growing service and how it could benefit you or your organisation using the Empowered to Talk prevention service.  Disputes can impact on stress time, resources, sickness, profits, productivity, salaries, court and solicitors fees.  All these areas can be negatively impacted when resolution or de-escalation cannot be found. 

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Where a Mediation has a value for settlement :

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Each party pays: based on two parties.  Where there are families which is potentially more complex, please feel free to discuss :

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                         online by video conference          Face to face

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Total amount in dispute (£)

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4,999 or less                                    £300                      £500

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£5,000 to £24,999                           £500                      £750

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£25,000 to £49,999                         £750                      £1,000

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£50,000 to £249,999                       £1,000                   £1,250

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£250,000 to £499,999                     £1,250                   £1,500

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£500,000 to £999,999                     £1,500                   £2,000

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£1,000,000 +                                  £2,000                   £2,500

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£2,500,000 +                                  £2,500                   £3,000

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£5,000,000 +                                  £3,000                   £4,000

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Each party pays based on two parties.  Where there are families which is potentially more complex, please feel free to discuss

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Mediations up to a value of £49,000 are generally expected to complete within a half day period, being 4 hours.  Values above this allow for more complex situations and allow for 8 hours being a full mediation day.  If the mediation needs to exceed the 4 or 8 hours (for example if settlement is close eg within an hour) we can agree a fee of the equivalent of the hourly rate for that days fee.  The additional payment will be made at the time.  In addition, further mediation can be discussed and agreed if required.

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If, during your 4 hour mediation, you consider a half day will not be enough time and a day's mediation is now required, subject to availability, the mediation can be agreed to continue at the additional charge of £250 making the charges no more than the equivalent charge of the next band of fees from £50,000 to £250,000.

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Please note that conversely, mediations can also be more successful than expected and conclude sooner than anticipated.

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Note:  During or at the end of, a zoom mediation you may conclude a face to face mediation should or could now take place.  On occasion participants find toward the end of the mediation, in order to achieve agreement, or facilitate ongoing repair, that face to face is now called for.  Please feel confident to suggest an in person meet and we will support exploring this.  (A 20% discount on a follow through mediation will be given whether face to face zoom or in person).

Mediation Costs

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We have devloped flexible pricing to encourage you to work through your mediation to a satisfactory conclusion.  If you would like to discuss further, please contact us.

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Fees are invoiced and payable min 7 days prior to the mediation and extensions settled on the day

Any papers for the mediation must be provided 7 days prior

If your day mediation exceeds its 8hr time further time can be agreed on that day and paid at the time in order to complete as detailed above.

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If your 4 hr mediation exceeds its half day time and time allows,  additional time will be charged at your day's hourly rate if it is agreed to continue (additional payment settled on the day).

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If certain tasks or events are to be completed as agreed during the mediation, and you would like a second (or further mediation meetings) to conclude/review matters, you may book further or a finalising mediation at a discounted rate of 20%.

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Any preparation and reading that is required is included in the costs.  If any additional work is needed beyond that which is usual to be prepared or included for the mediation we can discuss to agree an additional fee

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Video meetings on the hourly rates are charged at the same rate as in person, of course there are no travel, time or hire expenses. 

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Any venue hire is not included and as such will be added to your charge  

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We generally work out of the Isle of Wight or London.  Travel costs will not be charged, but my time will be.  It is not usually necessary to charge for overnight accomodation but this may be the case if the usual accommodation is not available.

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It is not uncommon for co-mediation to be required.  This will require two mediators and will therefore affect fees.  If this is the case, we will discuss.

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Please feel free to discuss.  We aim to be as flexible as we can.

Current Offer : Documents purchased per person to a value over £800 in a 6 month period will entitle you to a refund of the standard Will price of £99 where you have made a Will with us costing £300 and over.  Combine that with the discounts on offer to make great savings

Planning Documents & Services
including Wills  LPAs  Advance Care Plan  Trusts  Advance Directive/Living Will

For example where a Will has been made with us to a value of £300 and over:

before discounts, a couple may organise to have (at the same time or over a 6 month period to spread costs) any combination of documents such as:

a Living Will each (£260), Lasting Power of Attorney for health and finance with Isobel's conditions  (£349 pp) and an Advance Life Care Plan each at £150 (and/or Right to Die at Home Planning with Document of Decisions at £130) which is £300, a total of £1,209

After discounts They will receive the couples discount on a Living Will so £210 (saving £50), a couples discount on Advance Life Care Plan so £250 (saving £50), Lasting Power of Attorney for both Health and Finance £50pp ie £100, a total of £299 pp thus a total of £1,059 a total saving of between £150 and £200  PLUS if you have also made a non standard Will (with a value over £300) the standard Will charges of £99 will be refunded making a total saving of £299.  The original bill of £1,218, after taking account of all the discounts would be £919.  Well worth taking advantage of.

This also works for a single person who has previously made a Will with us for over £300 :  You can do any combination of documents, but for example, a Living Will is £130, Advanced Care Plan Document  £150,  Health and Finance LPAs with Isobel's Conditions £599 which is a total of £879 so the £99 Standard Will refund applies making your overall bill for all the documents £780.  It is still great value on what is already really competitive pricing and that is from a professional taking the time to provide a thorough personal service to provide an effective will for your needs, not a large organisation that deals with swift processing, big overheads and big profits.

Wills & Planning

Document costs come with 55 minutes free to allow for consultation / instruction taking to produce your document.  For further advice and discussion the hourly rate will apply as you require. No further costs are incurred unless you choose.  All invoices are payable within 2-7 days).  Please take note of discounts and offers.

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Advance Care Plan Document in folder     £150

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Couple                                                         £210

(fixed price includes 55 minutes planning and completion meeting if needed).

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Right to stay and die at home planning

with Document of Decisions                        £130

​(fixed price includes 55 minutes planning)

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Initial Consultation                                    Free               

Initial taking of instructions for a will           Free

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Standard Will                                                £99

Standard Mirror Wills                                     £178 (subject to client requirements)

(Includes Wholelife Review questionnaire when taking instructions)​

 

Additional Clauses                                 From £80 

Variety of clauses such as a guardianship clause for children, pet protection and digital asset clause

(subject to client requirements)

 

Will Trusts                                                     From  £275  

Discretionary Trusts                                          £275

(A gift of residue can be held for any period rather than being gifted outright, which can be useful when children are in need of protection such as drug or drink dependency)

Disabled Persons Trust                                £350

(A gift of residue can be held for any period rather than being gifted outright, which can be useful when a child is disabled and will need ongoing support throughout their lifetime and this trust will not affect any means tested benefits they receive)

Life Interest Trust (sometimes known as a Protective Property Trust)  £400 per Will  £750 for married couples.   Puts the family home into trust for the children whilst allowing clients to live in the property

IOU Loan Trust                                                     £450

These are often used for unmarried couple to mitigate IHT.  It allows the surviving partner to "borrow" from the estate of the deceased thereby creating a debt to the estate potentially reducing IHT

Charity Discretionary Trust                                £75

Pet Trust                                                               £150

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Flexible Life Interest Trust      (FLIT)                     £650

A particularly flexible type of life interest trust (IPDI) and a property trust combined which can be converted to a different type of trust at any point in the future.

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Severance Joint Tenancy                                     £140

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Lasting Power of Attorney for Health or Finance  £250

(subject to client requirements and additional clauses inc 55 mins of consultation)

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Professional Certificate Provider for LPA               £90                    

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Discount of £50 pp where both health and finance LPA purchased

(fixed price includes the planning consultation subject to client requirements)

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What others may not tell you up front : Non-standard Will :  may include additional costs of specialist clauses, trust clauses, consultations for planning depending on the complexity of your requirements.  May include expert's at their own rates eg accountants for specialist tax advice. 

May include costs of additional meetings if you ask for it

If mirrored it will receive a discount.  

Costs will only be incurred at the point instructions are commenced after the client has received and signed the Terms of Business and instructed us to commence work.

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Standard hourly rate                                           £125

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Unhappy Beneficiary Consult                             £99

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Life Support Service

From notification of a death

                                                                     £265

(subject to client requirements covers approx 3hrs work  saving min £110)

(invoiced within 7 days of booking and payable within 7 days of the invoice)

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Support where there is protracted probate and/or complications :  If you are in a disputed situation you may discuss mediation.  Difficulties and legal advice will be referred to our Probate experts.

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All disbursements (govt and external fees or costs) will be charged in addition to our prices

We are not registered for VAT so charges will not have VAT added

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Living Will/Advanced Decision                           £130

(Includes Advance Statement free)

Couple                                                                £210

(does not include registration fee.  Unusually long waits are improving but it still take weeks so we recommend you consider your needs in the consultation with us for when to register)  See registration costs article (coming soon)

(fixed price includes 55 minutes planning consultation subject to client requirements)

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Letter of Wishes                                                  £120

(Includes one to three items/wishes such as funeral instructions and disinheritance instructions, thereafter it is £60 per additional item)

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Registration with the National Wills Register  £50 (costs subject to NWR updating charges)

We believe this is a must.  Executors and beneficiaries can be unaware of the whereabouts of a will so this ensures that there is execution of the will; that it therefore is correctly distributed; and ensures the whereabouts of the will is known helping to avoid any intentional supression of a will.  We will store your certificate of registration with the will and you will be sent copies and a storage card for your wallet for free.  Please also consider use of the Advance Care Plan to centralise, store and record important documents. 

We will keep you on our diary to send regular will reviews (usually annually) to give you the opportunity to ensure your will stays up to date also for free.

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All court fees / disbursements are in addition to our prices, as is usual.

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We reserve the right to change the prices or pricing structure at any time.  The price agreed with the client will remain.

Costs Planning for your Will and further documents

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Aside from your Will, some documents may not be time critical.  You may have considered your position and would like to put in place certain documents but spread the costs over a few months or the year.  If that is the case, you can ask us to diarise to automatically send you a reminder in a month, or year, or time of your choice, even stipulating what situation or document you may be considering for the preparation of the next document. 

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You will see there is a discount and refund package above to provide for documents produced within a 6 month period.

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Please ask us about this service.

 

I have a background of working in the NHS, the legal profession, marketing and business in London, so I am familiar with the environments, their structures and personalities.  In addition to a Civil and Commercial Mediator I am also an Accredited Community Mediator.  My experience lends itself to an understanding and sensitivity that is useful in the types of mediation I offer.  I hope to be a mediator that all the participants may feel they can build trust to work with.

Be in control.  Be Certain

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