Wills

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 [...]

One common form of property ownership in France is the copropriété (co-ownership).  This could be the ownership of an apartment, or indeed a house, within a development. The main concept of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The exigencies of the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to a high demand for will writing services, and the challenges of meeting that demand whilst observing social distancing, have brought [...]