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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...
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It 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...
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The 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...
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Many 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...
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With 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...
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You 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...
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Restrictions 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...
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Although 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...
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The 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...
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The 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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