The High Court Has To Decide the Order Of Death Of Elderly Couple

Jul 9, 2019 | Blog

In October 2016, an elderly couple both died in their own home having suffered from hypothermia. Their bodies were not discovered until a week later, after neighbours called the police. The couple, John and Ann Scarle, both had children from previous marriages and...

Rachel Thompson has won her case against Apple

May 24, 2019 | Blog

Rachel Thompson’s husband Matt died in July 2015. Rachel, a property adviser, from Chiswick met Matt when she was 19 and he was 18. They married ten years later and had a daughter Matilda who is now ten. Matt died without leaving a will or any instruction to allow...

Be warned of an Over Reliance on Inheritance Expectations

Mar 14, 2019 | Blog

A report by Sanlam UK (https://www.sanlam.co.uk/Insights/Recent-News/Millennials-inherit-1-2-trillion.aspx) carried out recently found that 11 million people aged between 25-45 in the UK expect to receive some sort of inheritance from their parents or grandparents...

Family Law –Some Urban Myths

Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Family Law

I have been practising family law for quite some time now and over the years it never fails to surprise me that many people still hold strongly to a number of misconceptions about family law in Scotland. The woman will automatically get custody of the children- NO In...

August 2015 – “It’s not fair and we will act” – The new Inheritance Tax allowance for residential property

Sep 2, 2015 | Bullet Point Update

One of the things in George Osborne’s Summer Budget speech which attracted a lot of attention was the announcement of the phasing in of a new Inheritance Tax (“IHT”) allowance of £175,000 (to be added on to an individual’s existing IHT “nil rate band” of £325,000)...