Filtered by category "Wills and Probate"

DIY Wills – the £800,000 mistake

Why are Romford will writing lawyers not worried about the growth of DIY legal forms? Have you [...]

Empty Property – Land Registry Restriction Initiative to Fight Fraud

Home owners who do not live at their property can now make a request to the Land Registry to [...]

Duties of Trustees

Are your Trustees equipped to deal with the duties and responsibilities placed on them? Trusts [...]

Unregulated Will and Trust Writing Firms Face Winding Up Petition

Petitions have been presented to wind up companies involved in probate and wills and trusts [...]

Will writing firm dumps wills in the street

More than 1,000 files containing wills and other confidential information were recently found [...]

Registering a Death

You normally need to register a person’s death within five days, and when someone you [...]

61% do not have a Will

Research recently published reveals some shocking statistics about Wills. It found that: over [...]

Steig Larsson and the Consequences of Dying Without A Will

This is not (unfortunately) the title to his unpublished fourth novel. Stieg Larsson, the [...]

The capacity to execute a will –

In the recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Perrins v Holland and others [2010], [...]

Call for regulation of will writing

The call for new measures to introduce regulation to the will writing industry has been echoed [...]