LawSkills Articles

With September always comes the feeling of a new start – schools have indeed gone back, and Universities and Colleges will do soon. But in this rather damaging year for business, at the end of October, the furlough scheme comes to an end and [...]

The purpose of this book is to provide enough information for family law practitioners to deal with the initial case plan and provide guidance on how to instruct an expert to help with the more detailed guidance at a later stage.

This compact book has long had a place on the practitioner’s bookshelf as somewhere to start an enquiry into the drafting of a Will. Its stated purpose is to provide precedents for practitioners to see how to best express a testator’s wishes or [...]

In these strange times, many practitioners have seen the stampede by members of the public to have Wills drafted. Practitioners were then faced with the problem of whether Wills witnessed remotely would be valid (a problem since ‘cured’ by new [...]

Increasingly, executors are playing a role in the sale of farm property for a number of reasons. First, the demographic of a large amount of UK farm ownership is elderly. Second, the farm market has been strong. Land agents have been impressed [...]

LawSkills Monthly Digest is a tool which summarises all the key developments over the previous few weeks in the areas of Wills, Probate, Trusts, Tax and Elderly Client and drops a full report into your email inbox to read when convenient. It [...]

The pandemic has meant most practitioners are – or have been - working from home in self-isolation. Technology has provided the only real way to ensure business continuity. To attend team meetings as well as undertake client meetings, [...]

The process of valuing an estate for inheritance tax purposes and selling assets, namely property, can be a time-consuming process. Indeed property is likely to be the most valuable asset within the estate, and it is important to obtain a [...]

No tax practitioner can do without a set of annual tax tables. However, there are different choices and it is welcome to have in this publication a comprehensive and well laid out set.

A new Security Bond has been developed to protect Donors under a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA).  The Bond will give Donors the peace of mind knowing that their financial assets are protected from misappropriation, theft or an honest mistake by [...]