Data Protection and e-mail security
For many years data protection and email security has been quite straightforward as you kept all the data in the office and you have physical security methods. However with the increasingly [...]
When signing a Will is not what it seems
Will draftsmen and probate practitioners will be familiar with the requirements for a valid Will as far as execution of the document is concerned – it must comply with s.9 Wills Act 1837
Passing Farmland and Potential Development Land down to the next generation
Where there is development land which is tainted with problems which would make it difficult for CGT purposes to claim entrepreneurs’ relief and difficult to claim rollover relief, there are [...]
Tax Update – for the Wills, Probate & Trust practitioner
Here I plan to provide the practitioner with a round-up of current developments in tax as they affect the Wills, Probate and Trust practitioner.
Family Provision on Death – important decision on claims by adult children
When can a parent who's fallen out with his adult child cut them out and leave his estate to charity? Legal Article from Lawskills ref. Ilott v Mitson
IPFD 1975 – cohabitants – Cattle v Evans [2011] EWHC 945
A recent case considers whether an award should be made for the surviving partner of an intestate where they had lived together for five years before his death and had an 18 year relationship. It [...]
Doing what you agreed & getting paid…
The case of Minkin v Cawdery Kaye Fireman & Taylor [2011] EWHC 177 – as it applies to the probate practitioner
