Jan 9, 2018 | Blog, Powers of Attorney, Wills, Trusts, Estates
People are certainly living longer. The number of people in Scotland, according to the National Records of Scotland in September 2016, living for more than a century has increased over the last ten years. In 2005 there were 900 centenarians in Scotland, an increase of...
Aug 29, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
Throughout most of the world, disposal of an estate has been a matter of social custom. According to Plutarch, one of the best known Greek biographers and essayist, the written will was invented by Solon, an Athenian politician and lawmaker born in 638BC and was...
Jul 4, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
The first digital-led memorial garden is to open in Saline in Fife after Landsales Direct, a Scottish company won planning permission. The garden will feature small plots of ground in which purchasers can place mementoes of loved ones. However the plots will not be...
May 9, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
Charity Consortium, Remember a Charity, has urged the UK Government to exempt VAT from the cost of writing a Will containing a charitable bequest. The consortium predicts a VAT exemption on charitable wills would double the number of people leaving a gift to charity,...
Apr 7, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
From April 2017 a new IHT- free allowance has being introduced. It is to be known as the Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB) and will apply if you leave your residence to your “direct descendants”. The objective of the policy according to the Government is to “reduce the...
Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, Wills, Trusts, Estates
Heinrich Steinmeyer , a member of Hitler’s Waffen SS was only 19 when he was captured in Normandy shortly after D-Day, in August 1944. He was classed with a C designation which meant he was considered a hard-line Nazi, completely committed to the cause and...
