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The law in the UK is not supportive of people who assist, however unwillingly, those they love who...

The impossibility of asking a deceased person what their real intentions were makes the value of...

When your spouse's lack of attention to making a will causes issues, faking one is definitely not...

It is commonplace for people to appoint siblings or friends as their executors. When they do and...

You may have good reasons for writing close relatives out of your will but, as any lawyer will...

When parents changed their wills to exclude their son from inheriting their £1 million farm...

Many wills contain clauses which alter the distribution of assets in the event of changing...

Inheritance Tax (IHT) is not only payable on the value of the estate of a deceased person, but can...

Proposals to link the cost of being granted probate over an estate valued at more than...

When a man's first wife died, he inherited her share of the property they had owned jointly. At...

Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) have many advantages over normal savings accounts –...

The High Court of Justice is a very expensive place to resolve a family dispute, as is evidenced...

When a person's affairs are being managed by someone else under a lasting power of attorney (LPA),...

The law that allows someone who was dependent on a deceased person during their lifetime to make a...

When an estate is to be administered, an application for probate must first be made if the...

One of the requirements for a will to be accepted as valid is that the person who makes it must...

Farming families appear regularly in the courts these days, as more and more cases arise that...

When a will is made late in life which materially changes how an estate is to be distributed...

A divorced man who remarried in his late 50s made a new will in 1998, one year after the marriage,...

One powerful reason why you should always seek legal advice before making your will is to ensure...

Setting up family trusts with minors or those with mental incapacities as beneficiaries is by no...

Legal arguments between cohabitants who break up are commonplace. However, a recent case dealt...

The dangers inherent in adopting a casual approach to one's will were starkly illustrated in a...

Remarriages are a common source of disagreement and acrimony among family members and dementia is...

Even the most careful drafting cannot always succeed in dispelling ambiguity or in making...

When the male partner of a cohabiting couple died, apparently without leaving a will, after they...

When a person is excluded from the will of someone on whom they were 'dependent', the Inheritance...

Even the most apparently trustworthy people can sometimes turn out to be anything but and that is...

Wills made or varied just before death are a frequent source of dispute and court appearances, and...

We have written on numerous occasions of the danger of either failing to leave a will or of not...