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Woman wins RSPCA Will challenge.
BBC News October 12 2009
A woman who contested her parents' Will after they left their £2.34m estate in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA has won her legal battle.
Christine Gill, 58, claimed her father forced her mother into making the Will and she had been assured she would inherit the farm near Northallerton.
This could have been avoided by ensuring that the individual clients wishes were expressed without coercion by any third party. Read full article. Back to Top
Why Lasting Powers of Attorney are essential.
Coventry Telegraph April 27 2009.
The story of a Coventry grandmother seized from her daughter’s home has brought back painful memories for a city woman who launched a High Court custody battle for her own frail parent.
Sadly Jacqualine Barber’s mother was still in a care home when she died because red tape meant they spent several months waiting for the case to be heard.
Both of these sad scenarios could have been avoided by having Lasting Powers of Attorney in place. Read full article. Back to Top
First I lost my husband now I have to sue my toddlers
Daily Telegraph May 27 2009.
After her millionaire husband died leaving a flawed will, Taryn Butler tells of her agonising battle to save her family's home and inheritance
Two days before millionaire businessman Mark Butler died after a long and painful battle with cancer, he signed his will leaving everything to his beloved wife Taryn. As ill as he was, it consoled him to know that at least she and their two beautiful children, Molly, then three, and Max, only nine months, would be well provided for.
This could have been avoided by having a vaild will in place. Read full article. Back to Top
Farmer who toiled for no pay wins £2.3m will
Daily Telegraph November 7 2007.
A farmer who toiled on his cousin's land unpaid for more than two decades has won a two-year legal battle to inherit the £2.3 million estate.
David Thorner, 57, a bachelor, worked for 25 years on the 400-acre farm of his second cousin Peter Thorner, believing that one day the property would belong to him.
But when Peter Thorner died two years ago, aged 75, he left no will despite having promised David that the farm would pass to him. Under traditional law, this meant his estate would pass to his nearest relations, three sisters and two nieces.
This could have been avoided by having a vaild will in place. Read full article Back To Top
Don't leave your relatives a big bill
Guardian September 9 2006.
Dying could cost you £20,000 or more - and that's not counting a funeral, a drink-sodden wake or the eventual inheritance tax bill. Simply winding up the affairs of someone leaving an estate worth £500,000 - not so much, given current property values and a lifetime's saving and investment - and getting it ready to hand on to the grieving family can easily run into £20,000 or more.
Even the estate of someone with no property and £100,000 in savings could leave no change out of £5,000 - and that's assuming they left a valid will.
This could have been avoided by having a vaild will in place. Read full article Back To Top
We have to wake up to wills before it's too late
Independent July 20 2008.
After caring for her mother and father for many years, Christine Gill could reasonably have expected better than to find they had left their estimated £2.3m estate to the RSPCA, which incidentally is just about the UK's wealthiest charity. Understandably Christine feels aggrieved and is trying to get the will overturned. But as with any challenge to a legal will, she faces a huge battle, not least because the RSPCA will be lawyered up to the eyeballs
This could have been avoided by having a vaild will in place. Read full article Back To Top
How to make a will
Times July 2 2009.
People who die without a will, or intestate, leave costs and complications to their loved ones and often gift hundreds of thousands of pounds to the State in avoidable inheritance tax.
The Law Society says that anyone with assets and family or friends should make a will, regardless of their age. It is especially important if you are not married to your partner because the law does not accord partners the same automatic rights of inheritance as spouses.
It is also vital if you have children, as you can nominate guardians to care for them
This could have been avoided by having a vaild will in place. Read full article Back To Top
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