Wills, Probate & Trusts

14 Apr

Individual Tax Allowances and Rates From 6th April 2020

There is so much going on out there in the big wide world that the simple everyday updates may not have filtered into your consciousness.

09 Apr

Writing or Altering a Will during COVID-19

Daniel Bacon looks at the challenges of writing or altering a will during the current Covid-19 emergency. Pursuant to the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England)

07 Apr

Witnessing Wills under Covid-19

At a time when there are reports of a large jump in the number of people contacting lawyers to draft wills, one of the many

03 Apr

Contentious Probate

Contentious probate is a dispute relating to the administration of a deceased person’s estate. Here we look at the various forms contentious probate takes.

26 Feb

IHT – MP’s call for the end of the 40% ‘death tax’

A new report by a cross-party group of MPs proposes that the current inheritance tax (IHT) system which levies a 40% tax duty when a