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Health and Safety at Work in Covid-19 Times

During the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, employers are obliged to take reasonable steps to protect their employees and workers from harm, including the risk from coronavirus,...
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Is Now the Right Time to Extend the Lease on your Home?

If your home is leasehold, you could soon find it cheaper and easier to extend the term of your lease. This will usually make your...
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How Going Digital Can Help With Your Next Home Move

Covid-19 has encouraged us to do more online, and this is especially true of the property sector. From estate agents offering virtual viewings to solicitors...
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Joint Ownership – Buying Property with Friends or Family

In most places, the property market appears buoyant with prices continuing to rise. Although good news for many, this could make it more difficult if...
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Cohabitation Rights

Cohabitation is a term used to describe two people who are in a relationship with each other and are living together but who are not...
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What Happens if I Lose Mental Capacity?

What do I Mean by Mental Capacity? Mental capacity is a complex subject but, at its most simplistic, it can be defined as our understanding...
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Preparing for Your Divorce Appointment

Preparing for your Divorce Appointment – What do I Need to Bring with Me? In order to assist clients with their initial divorce and finance...
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Inheritance Tax – Fulfilling your Obligation

When someone dies, their assets are valued as at the date of death (known as the probate value). These values are reported to HMRC with...
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Financial Consent Order for Divorce

This is a question that I am asked many times and one where the consequences of not obtaining one can be devastating. The simple answer...
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Can an Estate be Diverted to Someone Else?

Read time: about 8 - 10 mins A wife (W) has died, leaving her entire estate of £700,000 to her husband (H), which includes the...
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Be in Control of your Estate… Make a Will!

These are unprecedented times, and with difficult times comes difficult conversations. That includes thinking about what we want to happen to our estate when we...
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The Six Stages of Probate

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Why You Should Make or Review Your Will

Many people do not have a will, and others may have one which was made some time ago and has now, more or less, been...
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Making a Will with a Dementia Diagnosis

Being diagnosed with dementia does not necessarily mean that you do not have the capacity to create a new will, create a Lasting Power of...
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We’ve Been Shortlisted!

Well done to our Private Client team who have been shortlisted in the 'Team of the Year' category for the Devon & Somerset Law Society...