by MyLocalSolicitor | Dec 3, 2019 | News
A man who claims his father’s will excluded him has taken his niece to court in an attempt to secure his share of an inheritance worth £2.4m. Colin Johnston, 77, states he was resented by his mother from birth and that both his parents, including father Sidney...
by MyLocalSolicitor | Nov 5, 2019 | News
A rise in the government’s probate fee, that would have resulted in bereaved families facing costs of over £6,000 in probate grants, has now been abandoned in a move approved by the Law society. In the former governmental plans, probate fees would have seen a...
by MyLocalSolicitor | Jul 31, 2019 | News
Heir hunters have secured £300,000 for a mother of four based in London. Margaret Abbots, 80, received a letter reporting the vast inheritance from a professional heir-hunting organisation called Finders international. First reading the document, Abbots thought the...
by MyLocalSolicitor | Jul 3, 2019 | News
A Justice of the High Court is being asked to make a ruling on an unusual case by two step-sisters to confirm which one of them will inherit £300,000. John and Ann Scarle of Essex died at home in October 2016 of hypothermia. Their daughters from earlier marriages,...
