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Paula Warburton

Merritts Solicitors LLP

Paula Warburton

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Paula took her law degree at Oxford University and qualified as a solicitor in 1988. She joined as a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP) while working in Manchester in 1994. She moved to the North East in 1994, joining Merritts and becoming a partner in 1998. She left at the end of 2002 to spend some time with her children, returning to work at Thorp Parker in Stokesley at the start of 2008. Since then, she has been a partner at Newtons and Knights locally, but was delighted to return to Merritts as a partner at the start of 2026. She has worked in the private client and property areas throughout her career, particularly specialising in tax planning and the creation, winding up and advising on trusts. She has extensive experience in estate planning, including agricultural and business property. Paula deals with all aspects of non-contentious private client work, including will drafting, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Court of Protection appointments and estate administration.

Merritts Solicitors LLP

Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority
Regulator ID: 139605
Based in Yarm, North Yorkshire
Licensed for 38 years

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Merritts Solicitors LLP

Regulated by: The Solicitors Regulation Authority
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Based in Yarm, North Yorkshire
Licensed for 38 years

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Wills, Trusts & Probate

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Wills, Trusts & Probate

Disputed Probate
Disputed Trusts
Disputed Wills
International
Probate
Trusts
Wills
Lasting Power of Attorney
18 25 Trusts
Accumulation Trusts
Administration of Non Complex Estates
Advance Care Planning
Advice to Trustees and Beneficiaries
Advising Executors
Advising on the Creation and Administration of Lifetime Trusts and Those Arising on Death
Advising on the Probate Process
Animals in Distress
Appearance
Applications to Remove or Replace Executors or Administrators
Applying for a Grant of Representation
Asset Transfer
Asset Valuation Problems Chattels
Assets and Liabilities
Attorney Disputes
Avoidance Powers
Bare Trust
Beneficiaries
Beneficiary Claims
Beneficiary Rights
Bereaved Minors Trust
Bereavement Services
Breach of Trust Claims
Business Succession Planning
Business Trusts
Capital Protection and Succession
Caveat
Certificate Provider
CGT and Shares in Estates Valuation Trap
Challenging a Lifetime Gift
Challenging Wills
Charity Wills
Claims Against an Estate
Claims Made Against Executors or Administrator
Collecting a Will
Collecting Assets
Combined Power of Attorney
Complex Wills
Confidentiality of Wills
Confirmation of a Will
Contentious Probate Claims
Contentious Trusts
Contested Wills and Financial Provision
Continuing Power of Attorney
Cross Border Estates
Death
Death of a Loved One
Deathbed Wills
Declarations of Trust
Defending Actions Brought by Trustees in Bankruptcy
Destroying a Will
Digital Legacy
Disappointed Beneficiary Claims
Discretionary Trusts
Disputes About the Proper Construction, and Rectification, of Wills
Distribution of Chattels
Divorce and Wills
Diy Probate
Diy Wills
Document Storage
Drafting and Amending a Will
Drafting and Reviewing
Dying with a Will
Electronic Wills
Estate Management
Estate Processing
Estate Valuation
Executor Duties
Executor Removal
Executors Grant Only Service
Executry Conveyancing
Executry Sales
Executry Work
Express Trusts
Family Protection Trusts
Fiduciary Duties
Fixed Fee for Wills
Fixed Fee Probates
Foreign Assets
Forged Wills
Fraudulent Wills
Free Will Scheme
Free Will Service
Funeral and Burial Disputes
Funeral Arrangements
Funeral Plans
Funeral Wishes
General Power of Attorney
Gifts in Wills
Grant Only Probate
Grants of Letters of Administration
Handwritten Wills
Heir Hunters
Helping Your Executors
Home Visits
Homemade Wills
How Do I Leave Money to Charity in My Will?
Inheritance, Wills & Trust Disputes
Insolvency Administration Order (IAO)
Insolvency Practitioners
Insolvent Estate Administration
International Estate Planning
International Inheritance Matters
International Probate
International Wills
Interpretation of Will
Invalid Will
Irrevocable Trusts
Joint Wills
Lack of Knowledge and Approval
Lasting Powers
Legacies
Legacy Administration
Legacy Planning
Legacy Protection
Letters of Wishes
Life Interest Trust
Lifetime Transfers
Lifetime Trusts
Living Trusts
Living Will
Lost Wills
Lpa Receiverships
Making or Defending a Claim
Management of Client's Affairs
Marriage and Wills
Mental Health Related Matters
Mixed Trusts
More Complex Fees
Mutual Wills
Nil Rate Band Discretionary Trusts
Non Contentious Probate
Non Resident Trusts
Non UK Trusts
Offshore Trusts
Online Wills
Partnership Voluntary Arrangements
Personal Representative
Personal Representative and Trustee Disputes
Pet Provisions in Wills
Pet Trusts
Philanthropy
Pilot Trusts
Post Death Estate Administration
Post Death Tax Planning
Power of Attorney – When It’S Too Late
Practical Guide to Bereavement
Preparation of Estate Accounts
Preparation of Tax Efficient Wills
Private Wealth Disputes
Probate Conveyancing
Probate Costs
Probate Delays
Probate Genealogy Research
Probate Instructions
Probate or Intestacy Advice
Probate Property Sales
Probate Registry
Problems Following a Bereavement
Professional Executors, Attorneys, Deputies and Trustees
Property
Property and Wills
Proprietary Estoppel
Protecting Assets Against Care Home Fees
Protecting Your Family Assets
Protective Trusts
Provisional Liquidation
Relevant Property Trusts
Remote Witnessing of Wills
Removal of Personal Representatives
Removal of Trustees
Resealing Foreign Grants
Residuary Estate
Resulting Trust
Reviewing an Existing Will
Revocable Trusts
Revocation of Wills
Saving the Family Home from Being Sold by the Trustee in Bankruptcy or Official Receiver
Secret Trusts
Settlor Interested Trusts
Sham Trusts
Simple Estate
Simple Will
Single Wills
Small Estate
Spanish Probate
Spanish Wills
Special Needs Trusts
Specialist Wills
Standard Wills
Statutory Trusts
Succession Issues
Succession Matters
Succession Planning Advice
Swears
Testacy
Testamentary Guardianship
Testamentary Trusts
The Importance of Having a Will in Place During a Property Transaction
Tracing Debts and Assets
Transfers of Equity and Probate Transfers
Trust Accounting
Trust Administration
Trust and Estate Accounting
Trust and Estate Registration
Trust Documents
Trust Issues
Trust Matters
Trust Work
Trustee in Bankruptcy
Trustee Investments
Trusts and Settlements
Trusts and Third Party Rights
Trusts for Vulnerable Beneficiaries
Trusts Holding Life Insurance or Retirement Policies
Trusts Solicitors
Turnover Actions
Types of Grants and Who Applies
Uncontested
Undue Influence
Updating Wills on Divorce
Validating a Will
Valuation Discounts
Varying a Will
Video Witnessed Wills
Wealth Preservation
What Is Included in the Estate
Will Aid
Will Considerations
Will Made Under Pressure
Will Registration
Will Revision
Will Search
Will Signing Formalities
Will Storage
Will Writing Service – Pricing
Will Writing Solicitors
Wills & Disabled Dependants
Wills & Relationship Breakdown
Wills & Remarriage
Wills and Tax Planning Affecting Farms
Wills and Trusts for Family Business
Wills Prices and Packages
Wills, Trust & Power of Attorney
Wills, Trusts & Probate
Winding Up an Estate
Winding Up Trusts
Witnessing of Wills
Writing a Codicil

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0164 288 5555

pmw@merritts-solicitors.co.uk

https://merritts-solicitors.co.uk/paula-warburton/

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Monday	09:00–17:00
Tuesday	09:00–17:00
Wednesday	09:00–17:00
Thursday	09:00–17:00
Friday	09:00–17:00
Saturday	(Closed)
Sunday	(Closed)

83 High Street, Yarm, Cleveland, TS15 9BG

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