Will and Probate Services, an estate planning law firm based in Market Deeping, have been awarded ‘Trusted Partner’ status by Co-Op Central England Funeralcare opening up a massive new market opportunity for this local company. Established in 2006 by Managing Director, Nicholas Ash, Will and Probate Services started life as a two-person team in a [...]
This post is about helping you with choosing your attorneys. When you make lasting powers of attorney, you're handing over quite a lot of power to somebody or some people. You can appoint a single attorney, but quite often that limits the use of the document. You can appoint up to four [...]
IN this post we are going in-depth about the lasting power of attorney for health and welfare. Specifically, we are focussing on the life-sustaining treatment decision. This decision is unique to the health and welfare power of attorney and potentially gives the power to your attorneys, who are normally family members, to [...]
In this post we are going to be talking about lasting power of attorney for property and financial affairs, what it is and what you do with it when you've got one. A lasting power of attorney for property and financial affairs kind of does what it says on the tin. It [...]
A question we are often asked is, why do I need a Lasting Power of Attorney? There are two types of Lasting Power of Attorney, one that deals with your property and financial affairs, and the second that deals with your health and welfare issues. You have two because they have two [...]
This post is discussing lifetime gifting, giving things away whilst you're still alive. Making gifts during your lifetime is a really good way of planning for inheritance tax. Each year you can give away up to £3,000 free of any inheritance tax liability. In the first year, you make gifts you can [...]
This post is about making your own Will and the pitfalls. A question we are often asked is can I make my own Will? The short answer is yes, you can. The real answer is, why would you? Research by the Legal Services Board consumer panel found that 97% of professionally-drawn Wills [...]
What happens if somebody dies when no guardians have been appointed? When you make a Will, one of the most important things you do is appoint Testamentary Guardians for your children if you die. Those are the people who will look after your children legally, if you're no longer around to look [...]
In this post we are discussing Wills for blended families. You might start by asking what a blended family is, and the truth is more and more of us are in relationships these days, where perhaps we're in a second or third marriage, and our spouse or partner has children from a [...]
Sideways Disinheritance is a phenomenon that occurs when one partner dies leaving children and their spouse or partner subsequently remarried. Remarriage by a spouse or partner who's been previously widowed will invalidate the Will that they left with that first partner. Their first partner's wishes may therefore not be respected and what [...]
