компютриWith recent regulations you’ll now have to go to the Land Registry, with your passport photograph, if you want to sell your home.
If you transfer part of all of your property (whether for money or as a gift), you get a new lease on a property, a new mortgage or if you lose your title […]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Stephen
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This is the title of a film staring the great Jack Nicholson and the legendary Morgan Freeman. The Bucket List is brilliantly written; the screen play takes us through the last stages of two men’s lives. They are both dying and are into the last few months of their lives, although they don’t know exactly […]
Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Stephen
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Our non-caring government is to spend six months looking into social care to see how they can deal with the proposed £6billion shortfall in the system by 2028. They feel a radical shake up of the current system is required – as if the whole population if the UK didn’t know this already.
Personal and nursing […]
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Stephen
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Southwark Council in South London has decided to charge more during busy funeral times of the year. They’re obviously not raising enough from speeding tickets or having one newspaper too many in your bin.
Their report suggested an increase in cremation and burial fees at the start of next January to “maximise the peak demand […]
Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Stephen
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A Petition to amend the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964, which entitles adult children to at least a third of the movable estate where there is a surviving spouse, has been lodged with the Scottish Parliament.
Children are entitled to half the movable estate where there is no surviving spouse.
Dingwall Solicitor, Mary McIlroy-Hipwell, who lodged the Petiton […]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Stephen
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It’s said that almost four million people choose to live together without being married in England and Wales.
Many couples believe that after two years of living together they automatically have rights know as a common law marriage; giving them the same rights as married or civil partnership couples. This simply isn’t true and hasn’t been […]
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Stephen
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What to do and how to behave after someone dies are circumstances we’re not usually involved with until the situation arrives, often unannounced.
The BBC publish an excellent booklet called ‘Losing Your Partner’
It takes you through:
• Initial shock
• Immediate practicalities
• The emotional aftermath
• Friends and family
• Widowed with young children
• As time passes
• Rebuilding your life
• Re-examine your life
• Helping someone who has been bereaved
• Useful […]
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Stephen
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Two sisters have finally lost their long battle with the Inland Revenue over the rights they wanted for inheritance tax relief. They took their injustice all the way to the Human Rights judges in the European Court in Strasbourg.
In a vote that was 15-2 against the ladies, Joyce Burden aged 90 and Sybil Burden […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Stephen
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