December 6, 2024
The Importance of Conversations: Avoiding Inheritance Disputes
Rachel Waller, partner specialising in contentious wills, trusts, and estates, explores the crucial role of open conversations in inheritance planning …
Read moreRachel Waller is a creative and empathetic solicitor specialising in Wills, Estates and Trusts disputes, with extensive Court of Protection experience.
Rachel joins Excello from a brief stint at the Official Solicitor and Public Trustee’s Office, where she dealt with complex litigation on behalf of clients lacking the mental capacity to do so themselves. Prior to this Rachel spent 13 years in private practice, most recently as a partner at Bishop & Sewell LLP, where she established and headed the Contentious Probate/Court of Protection Team. Here she dealt with disputes relating to Wills, Estates, Trusts, mental capacity issues and Attorneys / Deputies; and resulting claims, such as professional negligence, injunctions and fraud claims. She also dealt with Inquests and associated claims.
The central figures in Rachel’s cases are often vulnerable, and she has extensive experience of dealing with difficult family dynamics, coercive control, and intimidatory and bullying behaviour
Rachel is passionate about environmental and social justice issues, and likes little more than putting the world to rights, particularly over good wine and food. She also enjoys literature, fashion, walking, permaculture gardening, dancing, theatre and art. She has yet to convince herself that she is too old for festivals.
Rachel is an Associate member of both the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS) and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP); and a member of the Court of Protection Practitioner’s Association.
December 6, 2024
Rachel Waller, partner specialising in contentious wills, trusts, and estates, explores the crucial role of open conversations in inheritance planning …
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