New Probate Fees Dropped Today's news will come as a relief to our clients as well as to us. For weeks now we have been working flat out to push through probate cases so that the bereaved families who have employed our services need not incur the new probate charging proposals stated in the rec... read more
How A Little Planning Can Save You Thousands How the new Residence Nil-Rate Band and the proposed Grant of Probate fees will affect your beneficiary’s inheritance Main Residence Nil-Rate Band ('MRNRB') The new Residence Nil-Rate Band was introduced by the Government as a “fairer” m... read more
Daughter was left nothing in her late father's Will A 41-year-old woman who was cut out of her father’s will has taken her stepmother to court for a piece of the £1 million estate. Danielle Ames’s father, Michael Leslie Ames, died three years ago leaving his fortune to his second w... read more
Do You Have The Capacity To Write A Will? What are the implications of Burns v Burns [2016] EWCA Civ 37? This case involved an elderly woman with moderate to severe dementia who made two wills in 2003 and 2005, with the second contested on capacity grounds. It provides the latest statement from the ... read more