Contentious Probate News & Insight

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1st August 2022

Fibs We Tell Our Parents

When it comes to telling fibs about the conduct of another to a person preparing their Will - which incites that person to change their Will - a claim for fraudulent calumny may rear its head...

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Not Worth The Paper It’s Printed On?

Another Will challenge has recently hit the headlines, Clitheroe v Bond (2021). The judge in the case of Banks v Goodfellow (1870) perhaps didn’t anticipate how their words would be repeated in Courts and legal textbooks over the next 150 years.

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20th May 2021

Adult Children and Inheritance Act Claims

Claims for maintenance and reasonable financial provision are on the increase and there has been a marked change in the number of children now claiming against the Estate of a deceased parent.

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30th April 2021

When A Late Claim Isn’t Late…And Back Again

Recent developments in the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

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3rd September 2019

Cowan v Foreman (2019) – Court of Appeal decision re late applications in claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

The Court of Appeal considered whether a spouse, who has been generously provided for on a discretionary basis, would face difficulties raising a claim as having no reasonable prospects of success.

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1st August 2019

Challenging the Validity of a Will

A frequently traveled route to challenge the validity of a Will is to allege the testator did not know or approve its contents. But what does this mean?

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25th January 2018

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