Preparing for a Will
An elderly client wanted to make a will and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) but due to a fall, needed a home visit as she had fractured a bone in her leg.
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Keeping Control of your Assets
Our Wills & Wealth Planning team assisted clients who had been married previously, with making wills to provide for their current spouse, as well as for their own children from their previous relationships.
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No more sleepless nights
A client was in the process of a divorce who owned their own business and wanted to protect the estate for the benefit of the children. They also wanted to mitigate the potential for a claim being made against the estate in the event of death before the finances were concluded.
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Preparing a will
An elderly client wanted to make a will and Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) but due to a fall needed a home visit as she had fractured a bone in her leg. The medication prescribed also caused some confusion which meant we needed to review the timings of visits to catch the client at her ‘best’ and to liaise with doctors and assess mental capacity at the relevant times, to make sure she understood what she was doing and that the documents were valid and were less likely to be challenged.
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Child Care
A judge once ordered the return of two little girls to their mother. They had been with their father for 14 months and he cared for them when their mother left to live with someone else. The judge decided that the children should return to live with their mother and the father appealed and lost.
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Pensions & Divorce
Pensions are complex and it is important that expert advice is received. Some pensions are ‘high risk’ which means lawyers will strongly advise you to obtain a pension report to ensure that the true value of the pension is known. For example public sector pensions and final salary/defined benefit schemes are likely to be undervalued.
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A Divorce & Financial Assets
Our Family Law team were instructed by a wife who had filed an application for financial remedy. The husband and wife had been married for nine years with no children, they had been separated for 12 months, and she had obtained her decree absolute. She lived in a house that had belonged to her grandfather for 60 years. At the time of the marriage, the wife owned the former matrimonial home in Cheshire.
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