Private Client

• You Can Make Your Council Tidy Up Bad Housing

  • Posted29 August 2017

  Unoccupied and decaying properties can have a serious impact on the neighbourhood and can become a focus for vandalism and anti-social behaviour. However, as one case showed, local authorities have...

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• Small Pension Pots – Planning Possibilities

  • Posted23 August 2017

  People aged over 55 who have only a small (less than £30,000) pension pot in a defined benefit (final salary) scheme or in some instances in a defined contribution scheme...

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• Insurer Must Pay Missing Driver Claim

  • Posted22 August 2017

  When a person has an accident involving a car and a claim results, it is usually dealt with by the insurer of the driver concerned. If the driver is not...

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• Skulduggery in Divorce Proceedings Will Do You No Good

  • Posted17 August 2017

  Resorting to skulduggery in divorce proceedings is sadly common but almost never does either side any good. That was certainly so in one case in which a man surreptitiously took...

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• Asset Valuation Problems – Chattels

  • Posted15 August 2017

  When dealing with an estate, an increasing problem for executors is the valuation of assets in the form of the chattels of the deceased. In probate terminology, chattels are the...

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• Heir Hunters – Take Advice!

  • Posted15 August 2017

  Until the recent publicity afforded by television shows on the subject, many people might not have realised that ‘heir tracing’ companies exist, let alone that they research ‘promising’ estates by...

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