Wills

On 24 August 2021, The French Parliament adopted a new law reinforcing the respect of the core principles of the Republic (Loi no. 2021-1109 du 24 août 2021 confortant le respect des principes de [...]

Gill Steel, from LawSkills, reviews the book A Modern Approach to Wills, Administration and Estate Planning (5th Edition) by Whitehouse and King.

Despite splitting up with George Michael over a decade ago and being left out of his will, his former partner has persevered in claiming from his £97m estate.

This book provides a practical guide to advising clients making Wills and personal representatives (PRs) administering estates on how to deal with digital assets.

It is simply not possible in a short review of this book to list the full contents of this volume. Suffice it to say the law of Wills is comprehensively set out over 44 chapters.

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 [...]

Introduced by s.10 Finance Act 2008, and effective from 9 October 2007, the transferable nil rate band (TNRB) was expected to sound the “death knoll” for the use of nil rate band (NRB) legacies [...]

I have long been interested in what software is available for those of us drafting Wills. Some 30 years ago I took a look at Express Wills. I asked one of my team to try it out and she offered me [...]

For many months now, there have been varying restrictions on movement- due to the Covid pandemic. For owners of Spanish properties who live outside Spain, this has meant that it has been either [...]

In these uncertain times practitioners are (rightly) concerned with witnessing of Wills but there are older Wills in existence which can also prove to be problematic. One example of this was [...]