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Divorce and inheritance
Monday, 18 July 2022What happens if you divorce your husband, and he dies three weeks later. Are you entitled to anything? This is Money featured this very question earlier this month. The husband had been a teacher and had claimed a pension for the past ten years.
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Rise in contentious probate work in London area
Friday, 27 May 2022In an article on News on the Block, Bishop & Sewell LLP says the growth in property prices may have made it more attractive for claimants to contest probate as there is so much more money at stake.
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Sir Captain Tom Moore’s legacy lives on in funeral music choice
Thursday, 24 February 2022Last year’s iconic anthem, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by Gerry & The Pacemakers, was the number one choice for funeral music. The song, which reappeared in the charts thanks to being covered by Michael Ball, Sir Captain Tom Moore and the NHS Voices of Care Choir to raise money for NHS charities, was played at an estimated 9,500 funerals, according to data gathered by the Co-op Funeralcare directors.
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Finders International – another busy year
Wednesday, 5 January 2022As is traditional at this time of year, we’re looking back at what happened in 2021 – some of the fascinating cases we worked on, the events we held and the awards we accumulated, writes Danny Curran, founder and managing director of Finders International.
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UK charity legacy income predicted to reach £5bn in 2030
Tuesday, 7 December 2021The total amount of UK legacy income increased from £800m in 1990 to £3bn in 2020, a doubling in value in real terms, and the new figures show the predicted income by the start of the new decade.
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Judgment offers greater protection against estate fraud
Friday, 22 October 2021People who help themselves to money from a deceased person’s estate is an occurrence that is not ats rare as it could be, according to a recent article in Today’s Wills and Probate exploring estate fraud.
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Frenchwoman’s struggle to prove existence
Wednesday, 18 August 2021Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated… accredited to the author Mark Twain, the statement has rung true over the last five years for a woman in France who has been trying to convince the authorities that she is very much alive and kicking.
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Inheritance disputes – when one partner wants to do something different with a lump sum
Monday, 26 July 2021A modern-day issue centres on inheritance—should you be lucky enough to receive one, what if you plan to spend it one way, but your partner has very different ideas? That was the dilemma posed by the Daily Mirror this week, taking the example of an anonymous letter sent to the Daily Telegraph where a woman explained that she had inherited £20,000 from her late mother and was in conflict with her new husband over what they did with the money.
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Inheritance tax among the few to rise in 2020/21
Monday, 14 June 2021Inheritance tax was among the few revenue-generating taxes that rose in 2020/21, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. The tax rose to more than £5.3 billion, close to the peak of 2018/19, when it reached £5.4 billion, though it dropped again shortly afterwards because of the rise in the residence nil rate band and perhaps because people had rushed through probate in the previous tax year because they were concerned that higher probate fees might be coming.
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How do I know if an heir hunting firm is legitimate?
Tuesday, 11 May 2021Did you know there is an easy way to check if the heir hunting firm that contacts you to say that you might be in line for an inheritance is legitimate?
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