Administration of Estates - Blog Entries

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Famously plain speaking Yorkshire man and former international English cricketer, Geoffrey Boycott ran into a spot of bother in the High Court in London recently on the important distinction between the legal concepts of “tenants in common” and “joint tenants” in property ownership. Mr Boycott purchased a house in joint names with [...]

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Monday, October 17th, 2011

What do I need to do to make a will? To make your will you need to: Decide on who you wish to leave things to. (Your beneficiaries; we need their names, addresses and dates of birth, if minors.) Decide on who you wish to take care of your affairs after your [...]

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Monday, July 19th, 2010

The hardship and suffering faced by the loved ones of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease were brought into sharp focus by the recent Prime Time Investigates and Frontline television programmes which were devoted to the issue. It’s not a pleasant exercise, but try to imagine that you were afflicted with this awful [...]

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Monday, June 28th, 2010

In a recent survey I conducted of people sitting near me in the pub on a Friday evening, in answer to the question “what do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?” many people felt that it would be a pretty good start! As a curious member of this [...]

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