Ninian v Findlay is a particularly tragic case, involving a wife who assisted her ailing husband with ending his own life.
The following article will address these questions as well as some rumours that we’ve heard over the past few weeks regarding the validity of Wills.
What should you look for in a Will Writer? This short article will guide you on what main things to look out for when choosing a Will Writer.
I had hoped that we would not see a return to the late nineties when low cost Wills, free Wills were rife within the profession. Unfortunately, we are seeing a resurgence of this practice, which is neither good news for the profession or the consumer as most clients who took these services believing they were paying around £20 a Will, in fact ended up paying several hundreds of pounds to unscrupulous companies.
This week’s post aims to give readers a refresher on Business Property Relief (BPR). It should be noticed that BPR is a large and complex area of tax, so what follows is only a brief overview of the area.
When it comes to storing legal documents there are a range of options available to you, whether you’re a Will Writer, Solicitor or a client of either.
When writing a will it’s important that you get your wishes down for who should be appointed as executors, trustees or guardians and how your estate should be distributed in a binding fashion.
It is a well-established principle of law that all non-charitable English trusts must have a beneficiary to enforce the trust and hold the trustee to his obligations.
We’re now well into the first month of 2019, the weather is getting colder, Christmas and New Year is but a distant memory and perhaps for some of us those New Year’s resolutions we made have faded too.
In the majority of cases where a beneficiary dies before a testator and there is no substitute beneficiary named then the gift is invalid and fails.
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