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This week is Update Your Will Week (23rd-29th January 2023), an awareness campaign hosted by Solicitors for the Elderly (SFE) to encourage more people to update their Will and ensure their wishes are carried out when they die. This helps minimise disputes over inheritance – easing distress (and costs) for your loved ones. Accredited members […]
Louise Reeves was accused by her brother of bullying their father into changing his will to cut him out. The Court agreed and in January this year, Mr Justice Michael Green rejected the claim that Louise had bullied her father, but said she had ‘pulled the wool over his eyes’ so he did not understand […]
This is going to be an absolutely fascinating case when it is heard next year. An astronomer has left his £400,000 to his “best mate”, by way of his deathbed will, dictated to his friend from his hospital bed, whilst also suffering from dementia. The beneficiaries of the earlier will, the British Astronomical Association, are […]
We’ve answered some of the most common questions people have about making and updating a Will. If you have a question we haven’t covered here, do not hesitate to get in touch with our Wills team – we’d be happy to help. What happens if you die without leaving a Will? If you die without […]
A large proportion of the population have no Will. Many people either just don’t want to think about the possibility of their own death, or assume that if they die their estate will go to the people they want. Unfortunately in many cases it won’t and your estate could end up going to people you […]
A long-awaited decision was announced yesterday in the Supreme Court, on the very thorny issue of family inheritance disputes. In this case a son who had worked for over 30 years on his parents farm, largely unpaid, had a fall-out with them, leading them to cut him out of their will and leave their estate […]
Ramus v Holt makes for very interesting reading, the article below is a great summary. Husband and Wife, both wealthy. Rather staggeringly, Mrs Ramus, with some £1.6m in assets and a pension income, claims that the income from the life interest would be insufficient to meet her needs. The Court found that even upon a […]
As an inheritance solicitor practising in the area of inheritance disputes, I can very much resonate with the stats below. It is staggering to see a 37% rise in the use of caveats, an attempt to block probate being granted, usually where there is a dispute as to the validity of a will. I have […]
As you can see from the Telegraph article, inheritance disputes are on the rise. With more money at stake, parties are more likely to consider it worthwhile to fight it out in Court. So how can you protect your estate? Here are my tips: 1. A professionally drafted Will, prepared by a solicitor who specialises […]
This case is rather staggering. A solicitor accepted instructions to prepare a Will, from a 94 year old, suffering from dementia, and despite his GP stating that he did not believe he would ever regain testamentary capacity. For some reason, he proceeded to prepare the Will and this was overturned. A reminder to all those […]
