by MyLocalSolicitor | May 4, 2020 | News
Court decisions in recent months have illustrated that disputes over inheritance in the farming community tend to result in cases going to trial. To mitigate this trend during the coronavirus epidemic, farmers are now being reminded that alternatives are available to...
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,...
