If you own or buy a property, you may find that there are covenants which apply to it, a covenant being a requirement to do something or refrain from doing...
Continue readingIt is commonplace for people to appoint siblings or friends as their executors. When they do and they are of a similar age, there is a risk that when the...
Continue readingThe application of the ‘sharing principle’ to big money divorces is more than a matter of simple mathematics, and what family judges aim to achieve is a broadly fair outcome...
Continue readingMany people employ carers or cleaners to assist them with daily living. Quite often, such arrangements are informal and can last many years. However, failing to put them on a...
Continue readingWith significant losses being reported in ‘pension transfer scams’, it is no surprise that when the administrators of a pension scheme receive a request to transfer a pension to a...
Continue readingYou may have good reasons for writing close relatives out of your will but, as any lawyer will tell you, the consequence of doing so can be family discord after...
Continue readingRestrictions on land use appear in the title deeds of many properties – but the law permits their deletion or modification if they become obsolete over time or stand in...
Continue readingAlthough commercial surrogacy businesses have long been banned in the UK, the Court of Appeal recently ruled that a clinical negligence victim would not be breaking the law were she...
Continue readingThe legal dispute between Elon Musk and Vernon Unsworth, the man who helped to rescue boys trapped in a cave in Thailand, may have dropped out of the press over...
Continue readingThe supposition that residential properties are exempt from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is a common, but incorrect, one. You would think, for example, that if a person only owns...
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