http://www.legalsuk.com/blog Legal Services UK Blog information and news of Will writing and estate planning for current & new clients, estate planning consultants and professional advisers Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are a number of duties imposed upon an attorney when they act for a donor (the person giving away the power to the person called an attorney) when a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) comes to life. Some may appear quite simple and obvious, but they all have considerable ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=363 One of your first steps will be to decide if you're going to go down the road of an ordinary power of attorney or whether you consider a lasting power of attorney (continuing and welfare version in Scotland) appropriate. If you choose to use an ordinary power of attorney this is ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=362 There is no doubt that a lot of planning goes into managing your money and your affairs during your pension years. There's also no doubt that every adult would want to be able to manage his or her own money and affairs in those last years of our lives. The ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=360 If you decide to try and go it alone apply for the grant yourself, you need to contact your local district probate registry. You'll find them in your local telephone directory where you can search online for probate registry. Applying in person means you end up having to deal with ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=358 Probate is a difficult subject to understand and an even more difficult process to carry out. After someone has died someone has to deal with their financial affairs. We call this administering their estate. When a person has died either they will have left a valid will or now will at ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=357 The country’s leading professional body for the will writing industry claims the August 9 Panorama programme supported what it has always said: that a will is one of the most important documents a person will ever write and should be carried out by a qualified, person belonging to a regulated ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=356 The BBC television channel featured Will Writing in its Panorama programme this week. It tried to show problems in the industry, but does it from a biased point of view and as they say themselves at Panorama, it is an entertainment programme so it is ‘edited’ to show itself as ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=355 A legal encounter has been launched by the family of two sisters over the content of a last will and testament that has seen £400,000 go to the ladies’ hairdresser. The sisters, Ethel Wilson and Mabel Cook had their hair set each week by Jill Fraser for more than 40 ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=354 A Filipina maid has changed from being a poor person to a multi millionaire. The person she worked for died recently aged just 66. In her will the lady left her maid a total of around 6 million Singapore dollars, for the maid’s hard work over the previous 20 years. That’s ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=352 Following his death last week, aged 61, from cancer, the former world champion snooker player was laid to rest today, in Belfast. During the service, his 29 year old daughter, Lauren Higgins, read a poem she’d written, as a tribute to her father. It read: You never said I'm leaving, you never ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/?p=353