Specialisms & expertise
- Probate
- Estate Administration
- Inheritance tax
- Agricultural and business property relief claims
- High net worth estates
- Post death tax planning
- Re-sealing of grants
- Independent administration.
Examples of work
Identifying and securing the nil-rate bands and residential nil-rate bands available to personal representatives
Administering high value estates with overseas assets and connections
Acting for independent administrators
Advising personal representative and beneficiaries on post-death inheritance tax planning
Successfully claiming agricultural and business property relief on behalf of estates
Dealing with interlinked estates following multiple deaths, including intestacies
Advising personal representatives on strategies for post-death mitigation of CGT and income tax
Examining income and expenditure and establishing whether gifts made by a deceased were out of income and eligible for relief from inheritance tax
Acting for overseas and non-domiciled personal representatives
Achievements & other appointments
Fully accredited member of The Association of Lifetime Lawyers, formerly known as Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE).
Citywealth Leader.
Education
Paul read law at Newcastle University where he obtained an honours degree and went on to complete the Legal Practice Course at the University of Northumbria.
He completed a training contract with a national law firm based in Bristol and returned to Kent upon qualification as a solicitor in 2015. He joined Thomson Snell & Passmore as an associate in 2020 and became a senior associate in 2021.