Capacity law along the short grass county
Kildare's capacity work has the county's own shape. In the commuter towns — Naas, Newbridge, Celbridge, Maynooth, Leixlip — the pattern is the Dublin one a decade younger: parents ageing in the family home while adult children juggle authority questions from workday distance, the bank freeze arriving mid-mortgage-cycle. Beyond the motorways, land changes the stakes: farms and stud operations where a capacity question is also a business question, where entitlements, herd numbers and leases can't wait for a slow application, and where the Fair Deal treatment of agricultural assets needs planning before the nursing home admission, not after. (Farm succession itself lives with our dedicated practice at farmsolicitor.ie — the two practices work these families together.)
Kildare capacity applications are heard at the Circuit Court sitting at Naas. From our Dublin office the county is motorway-close for hearings, home visits and nursing home instructions from Athy to Kilcock.
Capacity law services
- Capacity applications in the Circuit Court
- Applying to be a decision-making representative
- Selling property where an owner lacks capacity
- Fair Deal and capacity
- Co-decision-making agreements and assistance agreements
- Which arrangement do we need? and the Pathway Finder
Getting to us — or us to you
Our Dublin office is in the Ormond Building, 31–36 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7 (D07 EE37), minutes from the Four Courts; our south-east office is at 2 Rose Inn Street, Kilkenny (R95 W58D). One number reaches both: 01 5827148, or email richardoshea@marymolloysolicitors.com. Most capacity work travels by phone, post and email; where a matter needs it — particularly taking instructions where capacity is in question — home, hospital and nursing home visits can be arranged, along with out of hours appointments.
How our fees work
You get a fixed quote in writing before any work starts — no hourly-rate surprises. If the scope changes, the quote is revised in writing before we continue. In contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees or other charges as a percentage or proportion of any award or settlement. How costs work in capacity matters →