About Arvéla
Arvéla is the consumer brand. This page explains the company that publishes it, and how regulated legal services fit into the picture.
Arvéla is the brand you see. It is the website, the diagnostic tools, the guides, and the Planning Companion.
Arvéla is published by Cascade Legal Ltd, an English company. Cascade owns the brand and operates everything you find on arvela.uk.
When you decide to instruct legal work. A Will, an LPA, a trust, estate administration, Arvéla routes that work to its chosen legal service provider. The current provider is named in full on the Your Legal Services page, with their SRA registration. The referral arrangement exists so that Arvéla can offer accessible, considered self-help alongside regulated delivery, without pretending to be both.
The consumer brand
The name you see on the website, the guides, the Companion, and the diagnostic tools.
Arvéla is a trading name of Cascade Legal Ltd. It does not exist as a separate company. It is the face of everything Cascade publishes to the public.
The publisher
Owns the Arvéla brand. Sells the guides, operates the Planning Companion, and (in due course) will operate Probate Pro.
Cascade is not an SRA-regulated law firm. It does not give personal legal advice. Its products are educational workbooks and planning tools.
Registered in England and Wales
Company number 08645164
Registered office: 8 Eastway, Sale, Cheshire, M33 4DX
ICO registration ZA020512
Regulated legal services are delivered by Arvéla's chosen legal service provider, not by Cascade. The provider is a separate firm authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Their identity and SRA number are published on the Your Legal Services page, and disclosed again at the point you instruct them. You contract with the provider directly under their own terms.
Estate planning suffers, as a category, from a false choice.
On one side sit traditional legal services. These are excellent at delivery, but often opaque about price and cautious about engagement, and structured in a way that makes self-education feel presumptuous.
On the other sit unregulated online providers, offering template-driven solutions at a lower price point but without the accountability or depth that a regulated practitioner brings to genuinely complex work.
Arvéla exists to give you access to both. The guides, the diagnostic tools, and the Companion let you understand your position at your own pace, before you decide whether to pay for advice. When you do decide, the work passes to a regulated firm with a published price ladder. A real solicitor, accountable to the SRA, with the experience to carry the work through to completion.
Cascade gives you the structured self-help. Arvéla's chosen legal service provider delivers the regulated legal work. Arvéla is the brand that sits across both. You choose how much of each you want.
You are buying from Cascade Legal Ltd, trading as Arvéla. Your payment goes to Cascade. The content is Cascade's, the Companion is Cascade's, and the Privacy Policy, Terms, and Refund Policy on arvela.uk are Cascade's.
Cascade is not giving you personal legal advice through these products. The guides are educational workbooks and the Companion is a planning environment. They help you see your position clearly, but they are not a substitute for advice tailored to your circumstances.
You engage Arvéla's chosen legal service provider directly. Their engagement letter and terms of business govern the work, and the provider is your solicitor from the moment of instruction. The provider's identity, SRA registration, and current price ladder are published on the Your Legal Services page.
When you buy a guide, a Companion subscription, or Probate Pro, you pay Cascade Legal Ltd. When you engage legal services, you pay the chosen legal service provider at the fees quoted to you. The partner invoices directly, on its own engagement terms. The two businesses are separate, and the money flows accordingly.
Most legal services are funnels: a contact form, a discovery call, a quote, an instruction. Arvéla is built around a ladder. People climb it in their own time, paying only at the steps where the value is paid. The diagnostic tools at steps 1 and 3 are free, and the guides and the work itself at steps 2 and 4 are at transparent fixed prices.
Step 1: Explore. The free Estate Health Check tells you where you stand. Step 2: Understand. The guides give you depth on the topics your diagnostic surfaced. Step 3: Prepare to act. The free Scenario Modeller turns your circumstances into your own IHT numbers. Step 4: Act. The configurator for self-serve, or a 20-minute advisory call if you'd like to talk it through.
The ladder is the architecture. Most people climb it in order. Some skip a step. Some come back down after a life event and re-climb. We don't push you between rungs; we make each one visible and let you decide.
We won't pretend the guides are advice. They are not. They are the best educational resource we can offer, written by an experienced practitioner, and they will help most readers more than enough to justify the price. But they are workbooks, not legal advice, and we say so on every page.
We won't use scare tactics. Estate planning matters, but not because something terrible is about to happen. We will tell you what we think matters, in plain language, and leave you to decide what to do about it.
We won't push you into advisory services you don't need. The architecture is designed around the diagnostic first, so that you arrive at any conversation with a solicitor already knowing what you want from it. The diagnostic is free because it is the door, not the product.
Whether that's a free diagnostic, a workbook to read at your own pace, or a conversation with a solicitor.