Our Services

Buying and Selling Houses.
We are a provider of good quality conveyancing services in Wigan. Moving house is stressful enough without having problems with the legal process. Our aim is to move matters along quickly and efficiently whilst keeping you informed throughout, thereby making your house move as seamless as possible.
You can track the progress of your house purchase or sale online as well as receive text messages at various important stages of your transaction to keep you up to date.
Have the confidence of knowing that your case will be allocated to just one person, an experienced property solicitor who will have the conduct of your case from start to finish supported by an experienced secretary.
We offer competitive fixed price conveyancing fees. Written, e-mailed, or telephone quotations are available on request and we guarantee that the price we quote will be the price we charge.

Telephone Christina Rimmer or Julie Barlow for an immediate quotation on 01942 206060

Are you Buying a property to let out?
We can help you with the acquisition and financing of an Investment property, the renting out of the property and rent and property recovery should your tenant fall into arrears.
As well as buying and selling property we also deal with re-mortgages, equity release and gifts of properties.

Contact Christina Rimmer or Julie Barlow on 01942 206060.

Buying and Selling Commercial Premises or a Business or thinking of Leasing Commercial Premises?

Are you thinking of buying an existing business or setting up a new business? We can help. There are many ways of purchasing a business, either as a limited Company, in Partnership with someone else or simply as a sole trader. Take commercial advice from our lawyers on the options that are available to you.

Are you thinking of buying an existing Company, the assets of an existing Company or the shareholding of an existing Company? Take commercial advice from ourselves before deciding how you should best proceed and then use the experience of our commercial lawyers to see the transaction through.

Are you thinking of buying a shop? for example, a hairdressing business or a fish and chip shop or any other small business. We can help you with matters such as stock, employees (TUPE) and the transfer of the Lease on the premises or the taking out of a new Lease from the Landlord.

We also advise on Company formation, Commercial contracts, Commercial disputes, Partnership Agreements, Deeds of Dissolution of Partnerships, Company Director and Partnership Disputes.

Contact Mark Boon or John Holland on 01942 206060

If you have been injured or contracted an illness or disease, through no fault of your own, you have the right to chose your own solicitor who will work for you and no-one else and thereby ensure that you receive the best compensation.

Do not be persuaded to consult a claims handler who has a secondary purpose in conducting your claim.

You are entitled to claim compensation for your pain and suffering and any other expenses or losses that you have incurred including loss of earnings. This is something that our personal injury lawyers can help you with, usually on a no win no fee basis and with you keeping all the compensation without any deduction for legal expenses.

The advantage of using our personal injury lawyers rather than relying upon someone who has approached you in the Street is that your case will be dealt with personally by a partner and solicitor with specialist knowledge of your type of claim and who only has your interests to represent and who will deal with the case solely on your behalf from start to finish.

Contact Paul Aynsley on 01942 206060

Are you experiencing problems with your Marriage, Civil Partnership, your Partner or child related problems?

Our experienced Family Solicitors will deal with your divorce, civil partnership breakdown, separation, financial settlements and child related matters with sympathy and efficiency.
We are well aware of the fact that in marriage breakdown situations you need to be comfortable with and confident in the solicitor that is advising you. For that reason we offer a choice as to whether you wish to be represented by a male or female Family Solicitor and we offer a a free one half hour appointment with Janet Long or Paul Aynsley so that you can satisfy yourself that they are the right person for you.

Mediation in Wigan at MBH
Janet Long and Paul Aynsley are qualified family Mediators and members of the Family Mediators Association.
Mediation provides an opportunity for both parties to meet, together with a Mediator and work towards arriving at a conclusion about such things as the care of and contact with children, the provision of housing for both parties and the division of property and financial support.
Mediation is available for separating couples whether married or in a civil partnership or merely living together.
Mediation is voluntary. This means that you, the client can bring it to an end at any time.
Mediation is a way for you to make your own decisions. You are likely to know what agreements and arrangements will work for you. You will keep in control. You will resolve your own problems with the help of the Mediator and not have decisions imposed on you by a Court.
Mediation is quicker and cheaper than going to Court. Your Mediator is completely impartial and will not take sides. A Mediator’s job is to assist you in finding a way to resolve your family problems, a way that is acceptable to you both.

An initial mediation interview is available here at MBH free of charge.

Please telephone 01942 206060 and speak with Janet Long or Paul Aynsley or their respective secretaries to make an appointment.

Our Employment Solicitors have the experience to act for both employer and employees alike.
If you are an Employer consult us sooner rather than later if you have or foresee a problem with an employee. Don’t be tempted to take the easy option, which is to do nothing.
If you are an Employee have you been unfairly dismissed? Are you being discriminated against? Re-organised? Or are you being harassed at work? Are you facing redundancy? Being laid-off or being asked to take short time working or being asked to sign a different contract of employment?
If so our specialist employment lawyers can help you with all of these problems. If you wish to bring a claim against your employer seek our advice at the earliest available opportunity. There are time limits after which you cannot bring a claim, so act quickly. If we believe that you have good grounds to bring a claim we will usually act for you on a no-win no-fee basis though you will have to pay us a pre-agreed percentage of your damages by way of legal fees if your claim is successful.

If you have agreed to have your employment brought to an end or have reached an agreement with your employer then your Employer may ask you to sign a document called a Compromise Agreement. You are required to take advice on such documents before you sign them. We can draft Compromise Agreements for Employers and we can also advise Employees on whether or not to sign them.

Contact Paul Aynsley on 01942 206060.

Our probate lawyers provide a full Wills drafting service and are able to advise you on basic tax planning matters and Inheritance Tax and the various ways in which you can hold property to maximise your tax allowances.
Do not put off making a Will. It is as important for young people to make a Will as old. Do not assume that if you do not bother making a Will, your wife or husband will inherit everything. She or he may not and if the estate goes to other members of the family there may be inheritance tax to pay.
Ask yourself, If you do not have a Will why not? If you do have a Will did you make it years ago when family and financial services were totally different and is it still relevant to your circumstances today? Were you advised to make a discretionary Will in the past? The law has now changed and a discretionary Will might not now be what you need. There are many reasons to make or update your Will.

Do either or both of you have children from a previous marriage or relationship? If you do and you wish to ensure that both families ultimately receive a fair share of your joint assets on death then you need to have a professionally drawn Will prepared to achieve this.

Do either of you suffer from a disability or chronic health condition that might mean at some time in the future there is a foreseeable likelihood of one of you having to go into long term care? If so, a properly drawn Will should enable you to ensure that a significant part of your assets go to your children or other family members and not be tied up funding retirement home fees indefinitely.

Contact Jane Sixsmith or Mark Boon or John Holland on 01942 206060

Elderly clients and Lasting Powers of Attorney
At any stage in your life you may suffer an accident, physical ill health or the onset of mental illness. In later life, you may lose mental capacity due to the onset of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease or other form of dementia?
For whatever reason, you may find that you become unable to manage your own affairs whether they are financial or relating to your health and welfare.
Have you thought of making a Lasting Power of Attorney?

What is a Lasting Power of Attorney?
An LPA is a legal document or documents appointing a person or persons of your choice to be your attorney(s). There are two different types of LPA you can use to make provision for the future. You can set up one or both types:

Property and Financial affairs LPA
By preparing this type of LPA you are choosing someone you trust to manage or make decisions about your finances and property should you be unable to do so.
You can choose whether this power operates from the onset of mental incapacity or whether your attorney can manage some or all of the affairs on your instruction while you still have capacity. If there are powers you do not wish your attorney to have, you may place conditions and/or restrictions in the LPA document.

Personal Health and Welfare LPA
This type of LPA allows you to choose someone you trust to make decisions on your behalf relating to your personal health and welfare. These decisions may include giving or refusing consent to medical care on your behalf, deciding where you live, and who you will have contact with.
Any decision can only be taken on your behalf if your attorney believes that you lack the capacity to make the decision yourself. You can place conditions and / or restrictions on your attorney in regards to what decisions they make on your future health and welfare.
Within the health and welfare LPA you are able to make advance decisions concerning the carrying out or continuing of medical treatment that may be needed in the future. However, unless strict formalities have been complied with, any advance decision you make will not affect any treatment that a doctor considers necessary to sustain your life.

Can you revoke an LPA
You can revoke your LPA at any time providing that you still have mental capacity. The attorney’s power is automatically revoked should the attorney lack mental capacity or if the attorney and donor have been married and get divorced, or have been in a civil partnership, which is dissolved.
The attorney’s power is revoked under a Property and Affairs LPA if they become bankrupt.
An attorney can also decide at any time that they no longer want to act as your attorney. If you have lost mental capacity and your attorney no longer wants to act on your behalf, your attorney must inform the Office of the Public Guardian.

Putting an LPA in place makes it easier for your family in the future.

Telephone Jane Sixsmith, Mark Boon or Paul Aynsley on 01942 206060

Elderly Clients
As well as providing Will Services and preparing Lasting Powers of Attorney, we also provide specialist legal services on registering Enduring Powers of Attorney and on full applications to the Court of Protection where a person loses mental capacity but there is no Lasting Power of Attorney in place.
More and more people are now becoming proactive in terms of planning for their old age and we are happy to be part of that planning process. We work closely as a practice with the local branch of Age UK ( formerly Age Concern) and we provide advice on Inheritance Tax issues, gifts of property, protecting the home and minimising residential home or nursing home fees.

Contact Jane Sixsmith, Mark Boon or Paul Aynsley on 01942 206060

Probate and Estate Administration
We are aware that clients want the affairs of their departed family and relatives to be dealt with on a personal one to one basis, quickly and efficiently and where possible at a fixed cost.
We handle a large number of Probate matters some of high value and some of low value.
For high value cases we offer a full estate service including payment of inheritance tax, obtaining the Grant and thereafter a full administration service and distribution to those persons entitled.
In low value or straightforward cases we offer a Basic Probate Services whereby we will obtain Probate or Letters of Administration on your behalf and assist you in the completion of the Inland Revenue forms leaving you to deal with the administration and distribution of the Estate thereafter, This option costs from just £495.00 plus VAT and Court fees and Commissioners fees of approximately £50.00 and has proved very popular with clients in straight forward Estates where keeping costs to a minimum is important.
Importantly MBH only charge for their services on the basis of the time that is spent on the matter, they do not like many other Solicitors, financial institutions and other bodies offering probate services charge any commission based on a percentage of the value of the Estate.
Telephone Jane Sixsmith or Mark Boon or John Holland on 01942 206060

For all clients new to the Practice we offer a 30-minute free interview. We know how important it is that you the client are comfortable and have confidence in the Solicitor who you choose to represent you, so before you instruct us on a formal basis take the opportunity of meeting your chosen Solicitor free of charge to make sure that he or she is exactly what you want.

Remember
Often a few minutes with one of our specialist legal advisers can resolve an issue that has been worrying you. Never take the easy solution and leave a problem. It is much better to seek advice early on and doing so can sometimes save you considerable time and expense later.