Which? the so called consumers guide ran an article warning people to watch out for will writing scams. We hope the article helped many people avoid the scam artists and hopefully the scammers will have left our industry now. Like all industries some people always want to try and cheat consumers; we don’t want them […]
Posted on November 27th, 2008 by Stephen
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It doesn’t feel possible that it’s three years since George Best died on the 25th November, 2005.
His funeral was one of the most attended ever, in Northern Ireland, despite a lashing down of hard rain all day. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Belfast to say goodbye to their favourite son and […]
Posted on November 25th, 2008 by Stephen
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My daughter woke me up at five o’clock this morning; as if we didn’t know it was her sixth birthday!
A birthday always sets you thinking. If something happened to me tomorrow, would she be okay, financially?
Fortunately, my will is completely done and dusted: I review it regularly and it’s signed and witnessed correctly and stored […]
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Stephen
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Our friend James Woo, in Malaysia, has an excellent video on his website showing how a trust works.
His words:
This is a short video explaining when and how to use a trust as part of writing a Will. The first part is a little funny but I hope you get the point. The later part talks […]
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by Stephen
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Paul Raymond died in March of 2008 aged 82. He’s been described as a pornography tycoon and a property magnate. Whatever his former occupations, he’s left most of his estate to his daughters while son Howard has missed out.
The two girls, Fawn James (22) and half sister India Rose (17) are his grandchildren from his […]
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Stephen
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We ran a news item a few weeks back which covered how a family expected to gain a father’s inheritance, except, he left his estate to a charity, the RSPCA. Here’s another person who has clashed with that same charity.
We received a comment directly from Victoria Devlin, one of the grandchildren involved. As we believe […]
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Stephen
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Interest rates dropped 1.5% today; this affects so many things. Our savings, our house prices, our purchasing power. How do we compare with the rest of the world?
World Interest Rates Table
Africa
Country/ Current Interest Rate/ Previous/ Last Change
Egypt 11.5% […]
Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Stephen
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Much has been made of the public display of the late Diana, Princess of Wales’ last will & testament. It’s available on the internet, so we repeat the link below to make this easy for you to find, here:
http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/wills/diana/part1.html
It makes very interesting reading.
Not all wills are available to see online.
For copies of wills from 1858 […]
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by Stephen
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