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Any aspect of agricultural or commercial property requires specialist knowledge. Glanvilles has a strong team of family estate planning solicitors who are experts in handling such high-value assets.
Separation can be incredibly stressful and difficult. During divorce proceedings, a financial settlement is usually dealt with alongside the application itself. When assessing the parties’ assets, particular consideration must be given to family businesses and trusts or agricultural property.
Due to the nature of these assets, division of items can produce further issues due to any income derived, goodwill, or capital value. In these situations, our family department can advise you on different options for dividing the assets and if you need to seek financial advice on potential tax implications.
When proposing a financial settlement, our family solicitors can advise you to the implications of any proposed offers and can guide you through negotiations to achieve an agreed settlement.
When such high value assets have been acquired by one party, you may want to consider a prenuptial agreement prior to marriage or civil partnership or a postnuptial agreement after marriage might be possible.
To speak to our family estates and rural assets solicitors in West Sussex and Hampshire, get in touch with our family lawyers by giving us a call at one of our local branches in Chichester, Fareham, Havant or Petworth. Alternatively, please fill in our online enquiry form for a quick response.
Given the complexity of rural assets and estates, as well as the ever-changing laws around agricultural inheritance, you are strongly advised to speak to a professional family estates solicitor. Having expert guidance can make a huge difference and help you to achieve your succession goals without paying undue taxes or losing control of your assets.
Understandably, most people feel protective of the estate or rural assets that they have developed and tended to during their lives, and so want to ensure that the estate is fairly managed and inherited. Wherever possible, our family estate planning team will protect your estate and set up legal structures for the future of you and your farmland.
Our experts will prioritise your wants and work within agricultural and estate planning law to ensure that everything is organised in the most advantageous way. We meet deadlines on your behalf and ensure that you are safeguarded against disputes in any circumstances ranging from divorces to deaths, ensuring that a full financial disclosure is made from the very beginning.
Dividing family assets in a divorce is notoriously complex when agricultural land and rural property are involved.
These cases are often emotionally difficult, with family livelihoods and connections at stake. They are only made more complex by the involvement of unique ownership structures, inheritance considerations, and the need to preserve long-term value.
Our family estate planning lawyers provide pragmatic, sensitive advice on the division of rural assets, whether the land is jointly owned or part of a larger farming enterprise.
Furthermore, our skilled civil partnership dissolution solicitors can help you to navigate the ending of non-traditional family structures, advising you on your unique circumstances.
Inherited land, farming assets, and generational wealth require mindful strategies tailored to the protection of you, your family, and the layout of your estate.
Without legal protections, you and your loved ones are vulnerable to excessive taxation through inheritance, disputes during the breakdown of family units, or misalignment of goals that can have lasting financial consequences on your farming enterprise.
Our pre and post nuptial agreement solicitors’ service includes identifying non-matrimonial property, planning for family businesses, establishing legal frameworks to secure family wealth for future generations, and helping you to plan ahead.
Complex divorce cases that involve rural assets require a detail-oriented and expert-led financial disclosure process, otherwise you and your loved ones are vulnerable to excess taxation, disputes, or misaligned priorities.
These matters often involve a diversified income stream coming from land, livestock, subsidies and partnerships, making financial disclosure significantly more complicated.
Our specialists in family estate planning regularly advise clients on how to present and value agricultural businesses accurately.
We prioritise transparency and fairness, particularly when dividing assets in high-value divorces, scrutinising trusts, uncovering hidden value, and reviewing shared ownership modules.
Family-run farms are simultaneously a business and a home, making them vulnerable to contention during a divorce.
Our solicitors are experts in the legal implications of divorce and rural property. They offer easy-to-apply, practical advice on how to manage the disruptive effect of a divorce on farming operations.
We advise on restructuring, asset ring-fencing, and all methods of alternative dispute resolution in order to help our clients safeguard their livelihoods.
When organising agricultural and family assets, you are strongly advised to contact an expert who can protect both your economic and sentimental interests.
Our team will preserve your estate’s viability by creating protective structures that limit exposure to claims, disputes, and excessive taxation, whilst supporting succession.
We help clients to preserve their rural assets whilst giving you room for future growth, maintaining flexibility and prioritising your interests.
Typically, a family estate includes residential property, agricultural lands, woodlands, outbuildings, machinery, livestock, investments, and personal possessions. Estates could also include trusts, farm businesses, and agricultural diversified income streams such as holiday lets or renewable energy projects.
Rural assets absolutely require a Will. Due to the complexity of rural estates and your succession goals, you are strongly advised to work with a professional for the drafting of your Will. Without one, intestacy laws are likely to work against your wishes to preserve the estate structure to be gifted to the individual you wish to inherit it.
Agricultural Property Relief (APR) is relief from inheritance tax that can be available on the agricultural value of farmland, buildings, and sometimes old farmhouses. The percentage of the relief depends on matters such as ownership and occupation conditions, but it’s important to remember that it does not apply to non-agricultural elements like rental properties or development land.
At Glanvilles, we have years of experience helping clients with their family estates and rural assets needs.
Our solicitors hold the Law Society’s Family Law Advanced accreditation, and members of our team are part of Resolution, the expert family law group for family law solicitors committed to non-confrontational methods of resolving disputes. Our practice balances the pursuit of a resolution with protecting family bonds.
As a firm, we guarantee that your time working with us will be professional and instructive. We hold the Law Society’s Lexcel accreditation in recognition of our high standards of client care, and can assure you of our total commitment.
To speak to our family estates and rural assets solicitors in West Sussex and Hampshire, get in touch with our family lawyers by giving us a call at one of our local branches in Chichester, Fareham, Havant or Petworth. Alternatively, please fill in our online enquiry form for a quick response.
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