An executor is someone appointed in a will to distribute the estate of the testator in accordance with the wishes set out in the Will.
Property Protection Trusts (PPTs) are by far one of the most common types of trusts included in wills.
In this article we will look at what a Discretionary Trust is and what the benefits of using this type of trust are.
We are able to report that The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has formally announced that Wills witnessed via video are to be made legal.
the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is expected to announce later this week that the video witnessing of wills is soon to become legal.
We look at what you can do to make sure you can still have a professionally drafted will put in place even during these times of social distancing.
The construction of a will can alter the date from which it ‘speaks’. The rules differ depending on whether we are talking about subject matter or objects.
Executors have a legal duty to administer the deceased’s estate. So, what happens if an executor is failing in this duty?
In this feature we examine key cases in relation to will writing and other estate planning activities. This time we look at Re Kelly (Deceased) [2020].
In this purely speculative piece we will be looking at what the future of Will Writing may look like thanks to the technology available to us already.
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