With almost 20 years of estate planning experience behind him, Graeme Dunn, the driving force behind GD Estate Planning, feels well placed to advise on a wide range of later life issues.

Subjects such as Powers of Attorney, Wills and the Long Term Care process that operates today. Graeme is someone with first hand experience of a sudden bereavement, when his father died suddenly but fortunately with a valid Will in place. Arranging a Power of Attorney for his Mother before she started to demonstrate some serious mental health behaviours. Being a sole carer with the assistance of the Local Authority as she suffered so badly with Alzheimer's, until a care home in Edinburgh became really the only option open to him, until she passed away.

GD Estate Planning looks to make the whole client learning process as easy and stress-free as possible. On most occasions meetings can take place in the comfort of your own home and at a time to suit you! Evenings, Saturdays and even Sundays are not a problem unlike some family solicitors who not only close at five every day but may also take a lunch hour as well as being closed at the Weekend! We come to you! We don’t carry the overheads associated with smart but expensive city centre offices and so we believe we offer genuine value for money, compared to the alternative of doing nothing and then being faced with a crisis purchase or worse still an inability to purchase anything because it is too late!

Scots Law can be very cruel when a person dies without a Will or needs a Power of Attorney after mental capacity has been lost. The rules are there to provide protection for vulnerable or ill-prepared individuals and their families but following them won’t always be what the deceased or incapax person would have wanted.