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- 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
- 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
- A New Way to Save Inheritance Tax in 2017: the Residence Nil Rate Band
- Claim for Financial Provision is Undone by Unemployment
- When the Law Might Keep Your Promises for You: Proprietary Estoppel
- 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
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