Who Do I Name In My Will...
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Appealing Against a Will
A worryingly large number of people still do not make a will. The number of intestate deaths is still at a high level often resulting in difficult wrangling over the...
How Do I Set up a Trust
Individuals may have a variety of reasons for creating a trust. This legal instrument can serve a variety of purposes but in the field of inheritance and will writing, a...
Inheritance Planning
Planning your finances with a view to inheritance after your death seems to many people, to be either unnecessary or simply a bit strange; it is assumed by a great...
Leaving Assets to Family and Non-Family
Your decisions as regards to the disbursement of your estate (that is the way in which your assets will be distributed after your death) may well be...
Leaving Your Assets to Charity
Many people make charitable donations throughout the course of their lives. Indeed the rise of ‘chugging’, with charity employees encouraging people in the street to...
Life Estates
Life estates have become an important, if sometimes little-used, tool when planning for inheritance of property. Although provision for such arrangements was not...
Naming Children's Guardians in Your Will
As much as we would prefer not to have to think about such things it is important to be prepared just in case anything happens to us as parents of...
Trusts
When planning a will the vast majority of people simply decide how they wish to divide up their estate, and then they outline this in writing. Generally, their chosen...
What Are the Responsibilities of a Children's Guardian?
Choosing a guardian for your children is a task that is overlooked by a remarkable number of parents. This is probably because the prospect of a...
What Happens if There is no Will?
Writing a will is a matter of good sense; it will help to ensure that your affairs are discharged in the way in which you would hope after your death, and that the...
What the Civil Partnerships Act Does
On 5th December 2005 the Civil Partnership Act (2004) came into force across the UK. This Act has proved to be revolutionary in a huge number of fields; previous to this...
Why Would I Set Up a Trust
The legal precedent for trusts was established during the time of the Crusades. When landowners went off to fight they passed responsibility for their land to a friend...
