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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
4 April 2019
Inheritance Tax – are the very wealthy breathing a permanent sigh of 'relief'?
Both the Guardian and the Independent carried articles earlier this week centred on the statistic that the average rate of Inheritance tax (IHT) paid on the deaths of the very wealthy is 10% while the average rate on more 'modest' estates of between £2 million and £3 million was 20%.
2 April 2019
Find out if someone has an attorney or deputy acting on their behalf – search the OPG register
Sometimes it is unknown whether somebody has a registered lasting power of attorney (LPA), an enduring power of attorney (EPA) or whether they have a court appointed deputy. The Office of the Public Guardian (the OPG) has a legal duty to maintain registers of LPAs, EPAs and court orders appointing deputies.
1 April 2019
Probate fees: Brexit brings some good news (for now)
The new probate fee structure, which was set to be introduced in April has been delayed due to the time demands of on-going Brexit discussions in Parliament; we’ve blogged previously about the Government’s introduction of a new ‘ stealth tax’ here.
20 March 2019
English assets, overseas owner - resealing foreign grants of probate in England and Wales
How do you secure English assets when there is a foreign grant of probate? The English Probate Registry can re-seal a foreign grant provided the deceased was from a current or former commonwealth country. This will give the executor named in the foreign grant the legal power to deal with the English asset.
4 March 2019
What if you’ve been left an inheritance, but not in the way that you want?
On 8 November 2018, almost 17 months out of time, Mary Jane Cowan made an application under Section 4 of the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 for permission to make an application under Section 2 of that Act against the estate of her deceased husband, Michael Anthony Cowan (Cowan v Foreman, [2019] EWHC 349 Fam).
