by admin | Sep 10, 2026 | Wills, Uncategorized
Dividing an estate equally between children can appear to be the simplest and fairest option. Every child receives the same percentage, nobody seems to have been favoured and the decision is easy to explain. Real family life, however, is rarely completely equal. One...
by admin | Aug 31, 2026 | Wills, Estate Planning
Most people assume that a Will becomes completely fixed when the person who made it dies. In one important sense, that is true: nobody can go back and ask the person to sign a new Will. However, the people due to inherit may sometimes agree to redirect all or part of...
by admin | Aug 26, 2026 | Wills
When choosing an executor, many people naturally think of the person they trust most. That might be a husband, wife or civil partner, an adult child, another relative or a close friend. Quite often, that person is also someone who will inherit from the estate. This...
by admin | Aug 21, 2026 | Wills, Uncategorized
For some people, making a Will brings up a question that is rarely covered by the usual family-focused advice: what should happen to the estate when there is no obvious person to leave everything to? Perhaps there are no children or close relatives. Family members may...
by admin | Aug 5, 2026 | Trusts, Inheritance Laws, Uncategorized
The seven-year rule is one of the best-known parts of Inheritance Tax planning—and one of the most frequently misunderstood. It is often reduced to a simple sentence: give something away, survive for seven years and there will be no Inheritance Tax to pay on it. That...
