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- Why Don’t We Recommend Legally Binding Mutual Wills?
- Will Tax Come Due on an Estate During the Administration Process?
- Winding Up an Estate When the Person Who Has Died Was Self-Employed
- What is Double Probate and When is it Needed?
- What Do You Need to Know About Inheritance Tax Interest?
- Where Might You Stand if Your Family Has a Disagreement About a Will?
- Could the Statutory Legacy Update Affect You?
- Gathering Evidence for an Application for a Declaration of Presumed Death
- The First Steps After Being Appointed as a Guardian for a Missing Person
- Administering an Estate with Missing Beneficiaries
- What to Do When There’s a Disagreement When Administering an Estate
- Can an LPA be Used Overseas?
- Should You Make a Separate Power of Attorney for Your Business?
- Which Country’s Succession Laws will Apply to Your Estate?
- Why is Probate Needed in the UK if Someone Dies Overseas?
- How to Administer an Estate where the Will Involves Trusts
- Selling Property and Belongings on Behalf of an Estate
- Making a Will on the “back burner” for 57 % of the UK
- Understanding the Probate Timeline
- Managing Probate Overwhelm
- Administering an Estate with Assets Overseas
- Dignity Action Day with Bluebird Care
- Common Misconceptions About Probate
- Roche Legal backing national Update Your Will Week 2023 campaign
- Applying for Probate: The Benefits of Instructing a Solicitor
- Planning For a Blended Family in Your Will
- The Difference Between Solicitors, Accountants, Financial Advisors, Stockbrokers and Fund Managers
- How to Plan for Your Pet’s Future
- Supporting a Loved One who Keeps Going Missing
- Administering an Estate After a Presumption of Death
- Probate Delays: What to Expect
- When is the Right Time to Apply for a Declaration of Presumed Death?
- What Does it Mean to Act as a Guardian for a Missing Person?
- What Rights Do Family Members Have When a Loved One Goes Missing?
- Is it Against the Law to Go Missing?
- Huge Number of Trusts Yet to Be Registered With HMRC
- Could a Divorce or Dissolution in the Family Change the Intention of Your Will?
- What Rights Do Beneficiaries Have to See Information About an Estate?
- Avoiding Fraudulent Professional Trustees: Universal Wealth Preservation
- Making Legal Documents: Why Your Solicitor May Need to See You on Your Own
- Making Legal Documents: Do Couples Have to Meet a Solicitor Together?
- Power of Attorneys: What Kind of Tasks Can an Attorney Carry Out on Your Behalf?
- Who is Responsible for Deciding if Someone has Lost Mental Capacity?
- What is the Right Type of Power of Attorney for You?
- How to Start Acting as an Attorney with an LPA
- Do You Really Need a Lasting Power of Attorney?
- Preparing for a New Year by Putting Your Affairs in Order
- Help for Financial Advisors: Supporting Clients with Future Planning
- Help for Divorce Lawyers: Supporting Clients to Reconsider Future Plans
- Help for Conveyancing Solicitors: Supporting Clients Who Have Just Bought a House
- Help for Accountants: Supporting Clients in an Executor Role
- What Happens to Cryptocurrencies After Death?
- What to Do with Online Accounts After a Death
- Assessing and Securing Digital Assets: An Executor’s Responsibilities
- Do Your Family Have the Right to Access Your Online Accounts After Your Death?
- Should You Include Digital Assets in Your Will?
- How Valuable Are Your Digital Assets?
- What Rights Does Your Next of Kin Have?
- The Role of an Executor: What Does it Involve?
- Do You Need a Grant of Probate to Transfer Shares in a Business?
- Why does it take so long to receive an inheritance?
- A Brief Guide to Inheritance Tax
- When You Need to Apply for Probate, and When You Don’t
- What Exactly Does Probate Mean?
- Living in a Care Home: What Happens if the Money Runs Out?
- Fraudulent Wills: What About Cases of Foul Play?
- Is a Promise Enough to Win an Estate Dispute?
- How to Plan to Avoid a Will or Trust Dispute
- Can ‘Delusions’ Lead to a Dispute Over an Estate?
- How much does it cost to go to court over a Will?
- What are the Most Common Reasons to Dispute a Will or Trust?
- What Happens When a Will is Contested?
- The Court of Protection and the Question of ‘Best Interests’
- Who Can Apply to the Court of Protection for Deputyship and How Long Will it Take?
- Could a Mental Health Condition Prevent You From Making Your Own Decisions?
- Why Do You Need a Power of Attorney?
- How Can You Make Sure Your Will is Valid?
- Understanding Care Home Top Up Fees
- Can a Power of Attorney Put Someone in a Care Home?
- Why Bankruptcy Might Stop You Receiving an Inheritance
- How to Take Power of Attorney Away from Someone
- Can You Withdraw Money from a Dead Person’s Account?
- What is the Concept of Reasonable Provision and How Could it Affect Your Legacy?
- How to sign documents that need to be witnessed during the Coronavirus pandemic
- Do Your Inheritance Tax Plans Consider Lifetime Transfers?
- What is the Statutory Legacy Increase and What Could it Mean for Me?
- The Deputy and the DNA Test: How a Professional Deputy Aimed to Prepare for Possible Inheritance Disputes
- As a Deputy, Can I Make Gifts on Behalf of the Person I’m Protecting?
- 3 Ways of Contesting Inheritance
- Lasting Powers of Attorney: Making Sense of Attorneys Making Gifts For You
- Does it Matter ‘Who Dies First’ with Your Inheritance Plans?
- What can I do if an Attorney or Deputy is Abusing their Power?
- Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 is Finally Coming into Force
- Death in the Digital World
- An Update on the New Missing Persons Guardianship Laws
- Delay to Increased Probate Fees
- Time limits for IPFDA claims – Are They Any Clearer Now?
- Changes to Grants of Probate
- Can a Court Overrule ‘Unwise’ Decisions Made by Someone with Mental Capacity?
- What Happens to My Loyalty Points When I Die?
- Making Contingent Gifts in Your Will
- Myth-busters #12: Everyone ends up in a Care Home when they get old
- Myth-busters #11 – I’m married or in a civil partnership, so if I die without a Will my spouse just gets everything
- Myth-busters #10 – I can leave family members out of my Will and there’s nothing they can do about it
- What Should I Do About a Hostile or Ineffective Executor?
- Myth-busters #9 – I have been appointed as an Attorney, so I can take over my loved one’s decisions when I like
- Myth-busters #8 – I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Power of Attorney
- Myth-busters #7 – Someone with a Dementia diagnosis cannot make a Will or Power of Attorney
- Myth-busters #6 – Once a Power of Attorney is made, you can’t change it
- Power Over Life and Death: Can My Lasting Power of Attorney be Used for Assisted Dying?
- Myth-busters #5 I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Will and what it says
- Myth-busters #4 – Having a Will means you won’t need Probate or pay Inheritance Tax
- Myth-busters #3: I’m in a Common Law Marriage
- Myth-busters #2: Trusts mean you won’t need Probate or pay Inheritance Tax
- Making Your Inheritance Intentions Clear
- Myth-busters #1: Lasting Powers of Attorney are only for people with Dementia
- How Often Should I Update My Will?
- Can Holiday Letting Offer You a Break From Inheritance Tax?
- Beware Attorneys Bearing Gifts: Making Payments under a Power of Attorney
- Your Creative Legacy – Who Will Get Your Intellectual Property When You Die?
- Do I need a solicitor to help me administer an estate?
- Do I have to repay a loan to someone who has died?
- All About Wills – Podcast
- Joint Ownership – Does Joint Money and Property pass in my Will?
- Government refund scheme launched for Powers of Attorney
- How Long Does Someone Have to Challenge my Will?
- Where There’s a Will Challenge, Who Gets Their Way?
- Inheritance Tax: the Reliefs, the Tax, and the Livery
- Advance Decisions & Life-Sustaining Treatment
- What happens to a Lasting Power of Attorney when someone dies?
- Adopted Children’s Human Rights Prove Decisive in Will Dispute
- Disinheritance by Deceit – Fraudulent Calumny
- Looking after the Property & Affairs of a Missing Person
- Act Now, Save Tax Later: Your Estate and the Residential Nil Rate Band
- Cohabiting couples: your rights under the IPFDA
- Ilott v Mitson: The Supreme Court Ends a Long Will Dispute
- You Can’t Take It With You: Claiming Financial Provision From An Estate Does Not Pass On Death
- Lasting Powers of Attorney: Can I Sell Property on Someone’s Behalf?
- Highly Strung: A Family Dispute over a Harpist’s Will
- A New Way to Save Inheritance Tax in 2017: the Residence Nil Rate Band
- Protection to the Vulnerable: The lesser-known benefits of using a Solicitor for your Will
- Claim for Financial Provision is Undone by Unemployment
- Can I give assets away to avoid Care Home fees?
- When the Law Might Keep Your Promises for You: Proprietary Estoppel
- Are you paid to look after a loved one?
- The Importance of Choosing Attorneys who will Cooperate
- Recent Celebrity Deaths and what this Means for You
- When to remove a Personal Representative
- Budget Overview – March 2016
- Know your right to revoke your Power of Attorney
- The Myth of ‘Common Law’ Marriage
- Taking the Law into Your Own Hands: The Risks of Acting as Executor without Legal Advice
- New Year – Time to get organised
- Court of Protection Revokes Lasting Power of Attorney
- Don’t leave life-changing decisions to strangers
- Owning property jointly – what it means
- What’s a Guardian and do I need one?
- DIY Wills whats the danger?
- Important Information if you made a Will with HSBC
- Can my Will be ignored?
- Deeds of Variation – Government Launches Review
- The new family home allowance for Inheritance Tax
- Deeds of Variation, what are the advantages?
- Can I leave a legacy to my pet in my Will?
- Inheritance Tax threshold to increase to £1m…?
- Digital Assets – what happens to them when you die?
- Searching for Missing Heirs
- Is your Will registered?
- New Intestacy Rules have come into force
- No to digital Lasting Powers of Attorney… for now
- When an outright gift to your child is a bad idea
- When is a Lasting Power of Attorney legally created?
- When is the value of your home disregarded for nursing home fees?
- Our promise to you when writing your Will
- A helping hand with Probate
- Marriage revokes a Will, but what about same-sex couples who convert their Civil Partnership to Marriage?
- Getting married soon?
- What happens to my money and property if I get Dementia?
- One in ten will pay inheritance tax by 2018
- My aunt is becoming increasingly unable to manage her affairs, what can we do?
- Do I have to provide for my children in my Will?
- Inheritance Tax: The Basics
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