Toucan Law

Toucan Law – Wills, Probate and Estate Planning Without the Legal Jungle

Let’s face it: talking about Wills, Probate, Lasting Powers of Attorney and what happens when we’re no longer around isn’t usually anyone’s idea of a cracking afternoon out.

There are probably several things you’d rather be doing.

But putting these things off can leave the people you love with some decidedly un-fun problems later on. That’s where Toucan Law in Weston-Super-Mare comes in – proving that serious legal expertise doesn’t have to arrive wearing a stern expression and speaking a language nobody understands.

Toucan Law specialises in Wills, Estate Planning, Trusts and Asset Protection, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Inheritance Tax Planning, Probate and Estate Administration, helping individuals and families make sensible plans for the future without making the whole experience feel intimidating.

A Different Kind of Legal Business

Toucan Law was founded by Kylie Cox, and there is a very personal reason behind the business.

After losing her mum in 2007, Kylie experienced first-hand just how difficult things can become when a family hasn't had the opportunity to make proper plans beforehand. That experience shaped her determination to create a legal service based on empathy, integrity and genuine care – helping other families avoid unnecessary uncertainty at an already difficult time.

Today, Kylie and the Toucan Law team have helped more than 1,000 families across North Somerset and beyond, with around 30 years of legal expertise within the team. Toucan Law also has STEP-qualified expertise – STEP being the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, a recognised professional body within the world of Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning.

So, while the branding might be bright, friendly and decidedly more tropical than your average legal practice, the knowledge behind it is very serious indeed.

Where There’s a Will…

Making a Will is one of those jobs that has a remarkable ability to remain on the "I'll get around to that" list.

Unfortunately, life doesn't always consult the list.  A properly prepared Will allows you to decide who should inherit your estate, who should administer it and, importantly for parents, who you would want to care for children under 18.

Toucan Law offers both straightforward and more comprehensive Will-writing options. There is an online Will service for straightforward circumstances, with each document personally reviewed by a qualified legal expert, while clients with more complex family, property or financial arrangements can choose a guided service with one-to-one professional support.

In other words, technology where it's useful – humans where they matter.

Estate Planning Isn't Just for People with Estates

The words "Estate Planning" might conjure up images of stately homes, sweeping driveways and someone called Tarquin wondering who gets the west wing.

Back in the real world, an estate simply means the things you've built up during your lifetime – your home, savings, investments, possessions and other assets.

Toucan Law helps people understand how those assets can be protected and eventually passed on according to their wishes. That can include Inheritance Tax Planning, Trusts and Asset Protection, with advice tailored to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all package.

Because you don't need a country pile and a collection of priceless oil paintings to care about what happens to everything you've worked for.

Lasting Powers of Attorney – Planning for the Unexpected

Estate planning isn't only about what happens after you die.  A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows you to appoint people you trust to make decisions on your behalf if you're ever unable to make those decisions yourself. Arrangements can cover your finances and property as well as decisions concerning your health and welfare.

It's another subject that's very easy to postpone when everything is going swimmingly – but putting the right arrangements in place beforehand can make an enormous difference if circumstances unexpectedly change.

Toucan Law helps clients understand their options clearly, without burying the important bits beneath mountains of legal terminology.

Compassionate Help When Someone Dies

There is naturally a different tone required when somebody comes to Toucan Law following the death of someone they love.  Dealing with Probate and Estate Administration can involve legal, financial and practical responsibilities at precisely the time when someone may feel least equipped to cope with them.

Toucan Law provides compassionate support through the process, helping executors and administrators understand what needs doing and guiding them through the responsibilities involved in administering an estate.

This is where the team's human approach becomes particularly important. They're not simply dealing with paperwork and assets; they're helping real families through one of life's most difficult periods.

Legal Advice That Fits Around Real Life

Another thing we rather like about Toucan Law is that they've recognised something remarkably obvious that isn't always reflected in professional services:  People have lives.

Appointments can be arranged in the Weston-super-Mare office, online, over the telephone or through local home visits, with evening and weekend appointments also available.

Their Weston-super-Mare office is deliberately relaxed and informal too – it's even child-friendly and dog-friendly. And, according to the Toucan team, they make a pretty good cuppa.

That says quite a lot about the business.  This isn't about sitting nervously on the edge of a chair while somebody fires legal terminology across a mahogany desk. It's about having a conversation, asking questions and understanding your choices.

Fees are also clear and fixed, so clients know what they're paying before committing rather than waiting nervously for a mysterious legal bill to flutter through the letterbox.

Local to Weston-super-Mare – Helping Families Across North Somerset and Beyond

Based at 38 St James Street in Weston-super-Mare, Toucan Law helps clients throughout Weston-super-Mare and surrounding communities including Worle, Uphill, Milton, Kewstoke, Hutton, Locking and Bleadon, as well as further afield in Clevedon, Portishead, Burnham-on-Sea, Bristol and the wider Somerset area.

And with telephone, online and flexible appointment options available, getting professional advice doesn't necessarily require reorganising your entire week.

Give Future You One Less Thing to Worry About

Nobody particularly wants to contemplate dying, losing capacity or leaving their family to sort everything out.  Which, ironically, is exactly why it's worth contemplating it for an hour or two.

Putting a Will in place, arranging an LPA or having a proper conversation about Estate Planning can provide something remarkably valuable: the reassurance that you've made your wishes clear and done what you can to protect the people who matter to you.

With Kylie Cox and the team at Toucan Law, you can have those conversations in a relaxed, straightforward environment with people who understand both the legal detail and the human story behind it.

Toucan Law offers Wills and Estate Planning done a little differently – colourful, approachable and reassuringly human, but backed by the professional knowledge you need when the subject really matters.

And we think that's something worth squawking about.