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• Category: Factsheets
  • Inheritance Tax: The Basics
• 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: General Interest
  • Laura’s Story: Bloodrun Emergency Volunteer Service
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney: Making Sense of Attorneys Making Gifts For You
  • 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
  • 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: Press Releases
  • Kate Garraway’s harrowing story highlights vital legal issue
  • Yorkshire solicitor launches Law Society ground breaking advice book
  • Roche Legal wins the 2020 Reisman Award for Legal Innovation
  • Clare Presley joins award winning Roche Legal team
  • Yorkshire MP backs changes to making a Will to bring “peace of mind” during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Top Yorkshire Solicitor Supports Moves To Help 30m Without Wills As Covid-19 Pandemic Sees Spike In Demand
  • Award winning Rachel Roche teams up with Sir Geoff Hurst
  • Multi-award-winning Roche Legal recognised by STEP
  • Roche Legal Shortlisted For Business Innovation Of The Year
  • 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: News
  • 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
  • Rachel Roche signs publishing deal with Law Society Publishing
  • Government Scrap Planned Increases in Probate Fees
  • Roche Legal Win Top Yorkshire Award
  • 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
  • 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