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- Category: Factsheets
- Category: Updates
- Category: Melanie’s Myth Busters
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #12: Everyone ends up in a Care Home when they get old
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #11 – I’m married or in a civil partnership, so if I die without a Will my spouse just gets everything
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #10 – I can leave family members out of my Will and there’s nothing they can do about it
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #9 – I have been appointed as an Attorney, so I can take over my loved one’s decisions when I like
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #8 – I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Power of Attorney
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #7 – Someone with a Dementia diagnosis cannot make a Will or Power of Attorney
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #6 – Once a Power of Attorney is made, you can’t change it
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #5 I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Will and what it says
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #4 – Having a Will means you won’t need Probate or pay Inheritance Tax
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #3: I’m in a Common Law Marriage
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #2: Trusts mean you won’t need Probate or pay Inheritance Tax
- Melanie’s Myth-busters #1: Lasting Powers of Attorney are only for people with Dementia
- Category: Press Releases
- Roche Legal Shortlisted For Another Top Award
- Yorkshire Legal Awards 2019 Finalist
- York MP backs call for action on massive probate fee rises
- Bereaved Yorkshire families forced to wait months to sort out financial affairs
- Local MPs Support Serious Concerns Over “Tax on Grieving Families”
- Karl Lagerfeld Follows Britain’s Pet Lead
- Roche Legal Receives Recognition For Local Community Support
- Social responsibility, our driving passion at Roche Legal
- York Solicitor Wins Top Law Society Award
- York Law Firm Shortlisted for Prestigious Yorkshire Legal Award
- York’s Rachel Roche shortlisted for prestigious legal awards
- Report reveals 77% of Yorkshire and Humber residents fear impact of dementia
- Solicitor targets Will “apathy” with new technology
- Category: General Interest
- All About Wills – Podcast
- Cohabiting couples: your rights under the IPFDA
- 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
- Can I give assets away to avoid Care Home fees?
- Are you paid to look after a loved one?
- Recent Celebrity Deaths and what this Means for You
- When to remove a Personal Representative
- The Myth of ‘Common Law’ Marriage
- New Year – Time to get organised
- DIY Wills whats the danger?
- Helping York be ‘Heart Safe’
- Deeds of Variation, what are the advantages?
- Can I leave a legacy to my pet in my Will?
- Digital Assets – what happens to them when you die?
- Searching for Missing Heirs
- Getting married soon?
- What happens to my money and property if I get Dementia?
- Category: News
- 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
- What Should I Do About a Hostile or Ineffective Executor?
- Power Over Life and Death: Can My Lasting Power of Attorney be Used for Assisted Dying?
- Making Your Inheritance Intentions Clear
- 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?
- 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
- Ilott v Mitson: The Supreme Court Ends a Long Will Dispute
- Claim for Financial Provision is Undone by Unemployment
- When the Law Might Keep Your Promises for You: Proprietary Estoppel
- We’ve moved to 4 Westfield House
- The Importance of Choosing Attorneys who will Cooperate
- Budget Overview – March 2016
- Know your right to revoke your Power of Attorney
- Taking the Law into Your Own Hands: The Risks of Acting as Executor without Legal Advice
- 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?
- 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
- We held a Dementia Friends Information Session!
- Inheritance Tax threshold to increase to £1m…?
- Dementia Awareness Week – 18 to 23 May
- We raised £1,140 for Will Aid this November!
- Is your Will registered?
- New Intestacy Rules have come into force
- Alzheimer’s Society Memory Walk, York 2014
- 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?
- We are now offering Guaranteed Prepaid Funerals
- This week is Dementia Awareness Week
- 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?
- Roche Legal has opened in Linton-On-Ouse, Yorkshire