Wills
How To Avoid Your Will Being Contested
Could Your Will Be Contested? More and more Wills are being contested in the High Court and last year the number of disputes rose 80% – the highest number of cases since 2007 It is believed booming property prices are the “main motivation” for children and other family members to contest a Will, but that’s…
Read MoreWhat Happens To Your Loyalty Points When You Die?
Most of like a bonus or cashback and hence we collect loyalty points from multiple places and throughout a lifetime the points we collect can have significant value. So I bet you’ve not thought about what happens to your unclaimed loyalty points when you die? Each year it is reckoned we build up £5.7billion through…
Read MoreThe World’s Largest Virtual Graveyard!
By the beginning of the next century, the number of dead people on the popular social media network, Facebook, is expected to outnumber living members – turning it into the world’s largest ‘virtual graveyard’. Can you believe it? We seem so besotted with social media that our ‘online life’, the trend of people looking to…
Read MoreHow a £90 Will by Barclays lost half my house
Barclays is being sued by a daughter who claims a botched will by the bank deprived her of a stake in her late father’s London home. The case underlines a wider problem with low-cost wills A woman is seeking hundreds of thousands of pounds compensation from Barclays, claiming the bank’s will-writing service resulted in her…
Read More2017/18 ‘record high’ £5.3bn IHT – Is It Time To Review Your Will?
This article makes interesting reading. If what you own is valued over £325,000 and most with a home in London and the surrounding counties will be, then you need to consider how to minimise you potential Inheritance Tax (IHT) liability. http://extbr.com/NJYoSpqH This is definitely a reason to review your Wills but some of the others…
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