About Keystone

We've been doing this for twenty-five years.

Long enough to know that good estate planning is about the long picture — not a single product, not a quick sale.

25 Years' Experience·Financial Services Background·Independent·England & Wales

Why we set Keystone up.

I came to estate planning through financial services. Pensions, investments, the long arithmetic of retirement. That background changes how you think about estate work — you stop seeing it as a one-off product and start seeing it as the last few decades of a much longer plan.

Over the years I've watched the same patterns repeat. Couples arriving with two wills that contradict each other. Trusts sold as care-fee solutions that couldn't possibly do that job. Adult children blindsided by intestacy because a marriage quietly revoked a will nobody re-wrote.

I set Keystone up to do estate planning the way I'd want it done for my own family — independently, calmly, and with proper attention to the long shape of things.

How we work.

Principle 1

Plain English, always.

If you can't explain it round a kitchen table, it isn't yet a plan.

Principle 2

No fear-selling.

Care home fees are a real concern. They are also the most over-promised thing in our industry. We don't trade on worry.

Principle 3

Time-horizon thinking.

The best plan written today is one that still works in twenty years. We plan that way — and we review it as life moves.

Where we sit professionally.

Twenty-five years' experience in estate planning. A background in financial services. Independent practice — not a panel firm and not tied to a single product provider. Working with clients across England and Wales, most often by video call, occasionally in person.

Estate planning, will writing, and trust drafting are not reserved legal activities under the Legal Services Act 2007. Keystone is not a firm of solicitors and does not provide reserved legal activities except where instructed via a separately regulated probate provider. Our information is general; advice on your individual circumstances comes from speaking to us.

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