A client has asked us the following question about care home fees and how the local authority decides who pays:
Could I have some feed back on the limit of the Local Authority (LA) powers to claw back fees against property owned by the daughter and only child of an elderly lady.
Approximately two years ago […]
Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Stephen
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No doubt your mother (if you were lucky enough to have one, if not your step mother, guardian, foster mother etc) provided lots of love and care as well as financial support through your early years. So do you have to leave them money if you die before them?
The answer is mostly ‘no’. Let’s start […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Stephen
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Christine Gill spent 30 years devoting her life to looking after her parents and in particular running the family farm. Her work as a university lecturer made it easier for her to help at the farm during the bust summer months. She made the sacrifices on the clear understanding that her parents would leave her […]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Stephen
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So true, so true, but who said it first?
It’s difficult to know exactly, but records do show that perhaps the first was Daniel Defoe, in The Political History of the Devil, 1726. He said:
“Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.”
So he didn’t exactly say the well known phrase, so, again, […]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Stephen
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There’s a lot of available information online about what taxes you need to pay and ways you can save paying taxes.
A good place to start is the Daily Mail’s online money website.
If you go to http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/frame-money.html then on the left in the personal finance section, click on ‘Tax & Wills’, you’ll find lots of helpful […]
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Stephen
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