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• Category: Events
  • We held a Dementia Friends Information Session!
  • Dementia Awareness Week – 18 to 23 May
  • Is your Will registered?
• Category: Factsheets
  • Owning property jointly – what it means
  • Deeds of Variation, what are the advantages?
  • Inheritance Tax: The Basics
• 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 and what is says
  • 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: Updates
  • And so here it is!
  • New charges for LPAs
• 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
  • 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
  • DIY Dangers
  • Important Information if you made a Will with HSBC
  • Can my Will be ignored?
  • Deeds of Variation – Government Launches Review
  • Good news! Update on Helping York be 'Heart Safe'
  • Helping York be 'Heart Safe'
  • Can I leave a legacy to my pet in my Will?
  • Digital Assets – what happens to them when you die?
  • Searching for Missing Heirs
  • Alzheimer's Society Memory Walk, York 2014
  • No to fully online Lasting Powers of Attorney… for now
  • When an outright gift to your child is a bad idea
  • Getting married soon?
  • What happens to my money and property if I get Dementia?
• Category: News
  • Making Contingent Gifts in Your Will
  • What Should I Do About a Hostile or Ineffective Executor?
  • Roche Legal Receives Recognition For Local Community Support
  • Social responsibility, our driving passion at Roche Legal
  • Power Over Life and Death: Can My Lasting Power of Attorney be Used for Assisted Dying?
  • York Solicitor Wins Top Law Society Award
  • Making Your Inheritance Intentions Clear
  • How Often Should I Update My Will?
  • Can Holiday Letting Offer You a Break From Inheritance Tax?
  • 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
  • Beware Attorneys Bearing Gifts: Making Payments under a Power of Attorney
  • Your Creative Legacy – Who Will Get Your Intellectual Property When You Die?
  • Solicitor targets Will “apathy” with new technology
  • 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
  • What's a Guardian and do I need one?
  • The new family home allowance for Inheritance Tax
  • We've made our pledge, what's yours?
  • Inheritance Tax threshold to increase to £1m…?
  • We raised £1,140 for Will Aid this November!
  • New Intestacy Rules have come into force
  • 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
  • What happens to my digital assets on death?
  • Rachel has been featured in the Royal Air Force Envoy Magazine
  • One in ten will pay inheritance tax by 2018
  • My aunt is becoming increasingly unable to manage her affairs, what can we do?
  • Skype appointments are now available
  • Do I have to provide for my children in my Will?
  • We've been featured in Vantagepoint Harrogate!
  • Roche Legal has opened in Linton-On-Ouse, Yorkshire