LawSkills Articles

The aim of the author in writing this book is to take some of the complexity of the inheritance tax (IHT) provisions and to break down the rules to their simplest components in order to produce clarity.

With the proposed dramatic change to the planning rules since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947, farmers and general owners of redundant buildings and offices etc, must consider both the opportunities and associated tax planning. The [...]

If you haven’t heard of Tower Street Finance, it’s an inheritance lending specialist which offers innovative, no risk, accessible financial products for beneficiaries and executors of estates.

All solicitors need to have a personal development plan (PDP) since the training rules changed in November 2018. Out went the 16 hours of CPD per annum and in came a more reflective approach to career competence.

Property Ladder Group is a nationwide service provider to law firms, housebuilders and homeowners across the UK. We are experts in Probate and Court of Protection property matters, as well as Part Exchange and Assisted Move schemes.

Sarah Bogard explores issues a beneficiary might think about when making the decision of accepting the inheritance of an estate in France, and the process of disclaiming.

As practitioners, we are aware that when someone dies they will leave an estate that needs to be dealt with. However, those who lived with the deceased might not be as concerned as a practitioner.

It is much easier to make decisions when you have not got to wade through a mountain of stuff to find that vital piece of paper, but you have a system to get right to it. It is also so much easier to explain your system to someone else if it is [...]

There is increased pressure on updated Wills due to the pandemic worries. Even if a Will exists, if gifts within the Will fail and there is not clarity as to how the failed gift is treated, that part of the estate will be partially intestate. [...]

Whether to do with probate and estate planning, downsizing or straightforward decluttering, we launched Blue Door, and have since been referred many times by the solicitors, or other professionals involved in the process, as we provide an “under [...]