Trust, Wills and Probate

When disputes arise as to the validity of wills, the evidence of the deceased’s solicitors can be crucial. In a recent High Court case concerning whether a woman had capacity...

A woman who was left just £1 when her stepfather passed away has failed in her challenge to the validity of his final will. The stepfather had formed a...

In certain circumstances, a person who has unlawfully killed another is precluded from benefiting as a consequence of their death, a rule known as the forfeiture rule and defined in...

The High Court recently upheld a claim that an elderly man’s final will was invalid on the grounds that he lacked testamentary capacity. The man and his wife had...

The High Court has recently ruled that a man is entitled to benefit under a family trust despite finding that he was not the biological child of the settlor. ...

The High Court has ruled that a businessman’s final will, which left most of his estate to his two youngest children and largely disinherited his two eldest children, was invalid....

A woman and her ex-husband who allegedly lost substantial funds belonging to the woman’s mother have been ordered by a judge to pay back the missing money. After the...

The will of a man who married his carer less than a year before he died and left everything to her has been set aside after his daughter challenged its...

An allegation that a will is a forgery can be hard to prove. However, such an allegation was successfully made out in a High Court case concerning an elderly man...

Those responsible for administering an estate are generally entitled to recover the costs properly incurred in doing so from the estate. Recently, the High Court ruled on whether costs concerning...