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Should an Executor be Paid?
Business Meetings & Networking I am privileged, in the course of my travels, to have met such networking notables as Helen Stothard and Nikki Groundsell. In rather different ways (Didn’t my...
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Testamentary Freedom Principle in English law that allows a testator when drawing up his will to dispose any or all of his estate in favour of whomever he wishes provided it does not run counter to the...
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Digital Assets & Bequests
Digital Possessions & Inheritance The current value of personal digital assets - £200 Recent research from Goldsmith’s College concludes half the adult population of the UK, has possessions stored...
View ArticleThe ‘Personal Brand’
Not Merely Marketing Guff Have you and your business partners or shareholders considered what would happen if you or a partner shareholder are no longer involved in the day to day running of the...
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Guardianship of Children For the want of anything better to do, I perused an old FT magazine column written by a ‘Mrs Moneypenny’. In a riotously successful attempt at humour, she describes her...
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Guardianship Appointment
Simplicity in Appointing Guardians I’ve come across this statement several times ‘You don’t have to make a will to appoint a guardian. All you have to do is complete and sign a simple document’ [said...
View ArticleThe Online Will, Reasons we don’t do it
Why are you looking to write a will? In what ever form of words you employ, your answer would encapsulate the following sentiment – ‘to ensure that on my death, the things that I own, go to the people...
View ArticleStoring your will
Will Storage is at the Heart of it all At an estate planning consultation, I had the pleasure of meeting this most charming and delightful lady the other day. She said to me ‘ will storage young man .....
View ArticleDisabled Beneficiaries: Wills for disabled people
I was spurred to write the post by a call I received from an existing client regarding her life insurance and inheritance planning arrangements. I was aware of the birth of the second child of the...
View ArticleAre the Executors Taking Liberties?
Executors Living Rent Free Can the executors live in a property without paying rent to the estate? It is a tricky practical question because there are both benefits and detriments to having the...
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