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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
17 September 2018
£6m gift for son of woman with dementia
In the recent judgment of PBC v JMA and others, Judge Hilder authorised an application by an attorney to make gifts from his mother’s estate in excess of £7m, including £6m to himself.
3 September 2018
Why should you make a Lasting Power of Attorney?
People in the UK are living longer than ever before. This is good news, but it brings with it a multitude of problems. The Alzheimer’s Society report that there are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over 1 million by 2025. With these eye watering figures in mind, it is becoming increasingly important that you make clear what should happen in the event that you lose capacity to manage your own affairs.
31 August 2018
Minor children and reasonable financial provision
The Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”) enables a child of the deceased to make a claim against his or her estate provided that they can show that they were financially dependent on the deceased and that the deceased did not make adequate provision for them in their will (or by an intestacy).
6 August 2018
Capacity on the cobbles, Coronation Street’s inheritance dispute storyline
Can depression invalidate a will? Anna Metadjer blogs about the importance of challenging a will at the outset and to obtain specialist legal advise.
31 July 2018
Life sustaining treatment: the importance of a Lasting Power of Attorney
On 29th July 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that families and doctors can agree to end the life sustaining care of patients in a persistent vegetative state without Court permission.