Franklins Solicitors

The Firm was founded in 1978 by the late Jim Franklin and the present partners are Julia Kent and Helen Foreman. Our property team handles all types of sales, purchases, mortgage and leasehold work for individuals and businesses. Our private client work covers wills, probate, powers of attorney, deputyships, tax planning and the administration of estates.

Our commercial lawyer has an outstanding regional reputation for commercial property work. John Cunliffe has a depth of expertise rarely found in high street firms, including sales and purchases of industrial and development sites, as well as a wealth of knowledge about leases of shops, offices, industrial units and commercial premises generally.

The residential property team at Franklins is independent and offers a local, personal and professional service. Instead, every case is handled by a qualified member of staff. Our clients value our friendly and personal service, our considerable professional expertise and local knowledge.

Where we provide a quote for your work, that quote will have no hidden extras for, for example, dealing with a mortgage or registering the title at the land registry.Julia Kent trained with Franklins and became a partner in the firm in 1983. She has great experience in the conveyancing of residential property and her commonsense approach is appreciated by clients.

Your priorities for the people and causes dearest to you are something we endeavour to understand. You may have in mind asset protection, the inheritance tax regulations and the use of trusts to protect vulnerable family members. We can advise on ways in which those wishes can be formulated by will and the tax and other implications of doing so.

A power of attorney is a legal document which gives someone else the authority to take decisions and to sign legal documents on your behalf. This can be a general power of attorney, perhaps given by a gap year child to a parent to enable the parent to look after the child's finances while they are travelling, or perhaps if someone needs to be out of the country while a house sale is in progress, for example.