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From Certificates to Belief Statements: The CPS and the Limits of Forum Bar Intervention
Rebecca Niblock
13 November 2018
How to change your name
Individuals change their names for various reasons. The most common reason is on marriage or on the birth of children. This blog looks at how to legally change your name by Deed Poll and Statutory Declaration.
9 October 2018
Civil partnerships, siblings and the inheritance tax dilemma
Theresa May last week bowed to mounting pressure and announced prospective legislation to extend to opposite-sex couples the right to enter into a civil partnership, previously an option only for same sex couples.
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).
