Under the 1975 Act, a testator (a person who makes a Will), dies domiciled in England and Wales. They could be presented with a claim for reasonable provision from the following: The spouse or civil partner of the deceased; A former spouse or former civil partner who has not remarried or formed a subsequent civil …
Broadly speaking, a Trust is an arrangement under which property i.e., land, cash, investments or some sort of rights such as copyrights, is held by a person or organisation on behalf of one or more people. The people holding the property are called “the Trustees” and the people on whose behalf the property is held …
Who needs to use the Court of Protection? The short answer to this is someone who has not already arranged a Power of Attorney. In our experience this falls into two camps; the apathetic and people are who are in denial about their own potential frailty. It is this latter group where financial advisers & …
Year on year, the number of cohabiting (living together) couples continues to grow, with the proportion of people getting married slowly on the decline. As of November 2019, there were 3.5 million cohabiting couples in the UK. In this article we debunk some common myths about the rights of cohabitating couples. As the dynamic between …
