In the Press
Do you Hold the missing Will?
03 December 2009
In a recent poll of 200 solicitors 98% said that they held Wills where the testator has died but had not had the opportunity to administer the Will because the family could not find them. Searching for a Will has never been so simple. Certainty’s Will Search service replaces the haphazard system under which a family [...] Read More
Let’s recognise the ’specialness’ of the live-in partner
03 November 2009
Published: 1st November 2009 Source: Julian Knight, Independent It’s a difficult one Should people who are cohabiting have the right to claim the estates of their loved ones when they die in the same way bereaved spouses or civil partners do? The UK Law Commission says yes. But others say that if the cohabitees had meant their partners [...] Read More
Get lasting peace of mind from a ‘living will’
03 November 2009
Published: 31st October 2009 Source: Stephen Womack, Mail on Sunday Personal Finance Correspondent Pensioners are being urged to draft ‘living wills’ in case they become incapacitated. As The Mail on Sunday reported last week, thousands of families each year have to apply to the Court of Protection if a relative is struck down with dementia or other [...] Read More
Beware the curse of the unwanted executor
26 October 2009
Published: 4 October 2009 Source: Julian Knight and Chiara Cavaglieri, Independent Enticing offers of discount or even free will-writing services may sound harmless enough, but many families who take this route risk paying dearly when it comes to sorting out the eventual estate. Will-writing companies, banks and solicitors may be taking consumers for a ride by [...] Read More
£2.4m for Cancer Research UK in Cardiff wills
26 October 2009
Published: Oct 19 2009 Source: Madeleine Brindley, South Wales Echo CARDIFF residents have left £2.4m to Cancer Research UK in their wills over the last year, figures reveal. The charity said that local supporters are playing a vital role in Cancer Research UK’s vision to beat cancer by helping to fund its life-saving research. The charity spent almost [...] Read More
Rewrite your wills! Couples warned as public debt threatens inheritance tax pledge
26 October 2009
Published: Sep 26 2009 Source: Stephen Womack, Daily Mail Families are being urged to take prompt action to cut potential inheritance tax bills amid fears that the precarious state of the country’s public finances could mean an end to generous thresholds. Inheritance tax (IHT) is charged at 40 per cent on legacies, though bequests to a [...] Read More
Lawyer warns over ‘cowboy’ will writers
26 October 2009
Published: Oct 14 2009 Source: Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post A Midland lawyer who specialises in services for the elderly has warned that some unqualified will writing services are the equivalent of cowboy operators in the building trade. Fiona Barnes, a partner at Shropshire-based MFG Solicitors and head of the firm’s private client division, warns that dying without [...] Read More
The difficulty of challenging a Will
26 October 2009
Source: Money Talk, BBC By Edward Chivers Buss Murton solicitors Last week Christine Gill successfully challenged her mother’s Will which had left more than £2m to the RSPCA. This court challenge is likely to result in an appeal by the animal charity. But it is just the latest in a long line of high profile, and often bitter, disputes [...] Read More
Michael Jackson- the importance of having a will
06 July 2009
Published: 1st July 2009 Source: Kristen Houghton, www.examiner.com The media circus over Michael Jackson’s estate, his final wishes, and guardianship of his three children has brought the subject of wills to the forefront of the news. If, as some claim, Michael Jackson died intestate, it would be a disaster as far as his children are concerned. It [...] Read More
Give someone power of attorney … before it’s too late
05 June 2009
Published: 3rd June 2009 Source: Harriet Mayer, www.guardian.co.uk Power of attorney is being simplified and the cost is falling, so there’s no excuse to put it off any longer, says Harriet Meyer Given that many of us will develop health problems as we get older, and may even be struck down in the prime of life by accident [...] Read More
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