Phoebe Skarlatos TEP

Career and Experience

Phoebe has been working in Probate, Wills and Trusts since 2016 and has experienced a huge variety of circumstances and situations in her career. Phoebe has experience in complex, high value estate administration, trust creation and administration, Powers of Attorney, bespoke Will drafting and Court of Protection matters. Amongst many others, some of her more notable matters include:

• Administering an estate after the appointed professional executor in London had been struck off from being a solicitor and managing to claim circa £200,000 back for the estate in stolen funds;
• Administering an estate where the original Will was ripped in half and subsequently contested;
• Acting as a professional trustee for numerous trusts;
• Dealing with various clients with assets overseas, including Austria, France, Spain and New Zealand;
• Providing advice on creating Wills for clients with an estate valued at £24m;
• Advising an attorney on financial abuse by a family member.

Phoebe’s passion lies in trusts, and working through the intricacies that they pose, as well as complex, high net worth estates. She has an eye for detail which ensures that everything goes smoothly from start to finish.

Phoebe is a Director, Senior Associate Solicitor and Head of the Probate, Wills & Trusts Department. Her role includes the preparation of and advice on Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Court of Protection Matters, Trusts and Estate Administration (including Probate). She qualified as a solicitor in March 2019 into the Probate, Wills and Trusts Department. In 2022, Phoebe completed her masters in Healthcare Ethics and Law from the University of Manchester.

In April 2022, Phoebe was thrilled to be promoted to Head of Department. In 2023, Phoebe became an Affiliate with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and in 2026 she qualified as a Full TEP after 2 and a half years of study. During her STEP course, she specialised in cross-border estates, estate and trust administration, taxation and estate and trust accounting.

Fun fact:

Outside of work, Phoebe is the Chair of Trustees for a local animal charity. In her spare time, she loves travelling to new countries with her favourites so far being Cambodia, Slovenia and the Maldives. She also enjoys spending time with her cats and leopard gecko, reading psychological thrillers and gardening.