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Keeping the peace at Christmas – top tips for shared parenting over the festive season
Lauren Evans
30 July 2018
Personal possessions and death
For most ordinary folk (me included) the cash value of their personal belongings ('chattels') is modest and will form but a tiny part of the overall value of an estate on death. But the sentimental value of specific items to individual family members, and the legal fees they might be prepared to spend haggling over who gets what, can be massive and wholly disproportionate.
16 July 2018
Holiday home/Retirement planning: will Brexit wreck it?
As the summer holiday season approaches, those of you lucky enough to have property abroad may be preparing to decamp to your rural idylls in Tuscany, Provence or Southern Spain. Football fans aside I’m also told Croatia is an increasingly popular holiday home destination?
9 July 2018
Will my children steal my money when I'm old?
Financial abuse of the elderly is a shame on our nation. That the abuser is often the elderly person’s own offspring, acting under a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), is disturbing. And let’s not mince words; we’re talking about children stealing their parents’ money.
4 July 2018
Interpreting an ambiguous Will clause and intentions of the testator (Tish and others v Olley and others)
Joseph Austin explains how the court applied the rules of interpretation to determine the testator’s intention by identifying the meaning of the relevant words in light of various factors, including common sense.
22 June 2018
What happens if a pension sharing order is not passed on after divorce?
Jane Keir, divorce and family law partner at Kingsley Napley, replies to a question in This is Money: 'Help! Have I lost a £12k a year pension because of admin blunder following my divorce?'
