We may not want to think of cremating people as a business, but it is. The running and finances of a crematorium are controlled as businesses.
There are 200+ crematoriums in the UK, with three quarters owned by local councils. Thirty are owned by Dignity, ten by Westerleigh and ten are privately owned. If you wanted […]
Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Stephen
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You never know when death can strike. Often without any warning whatsoever, another life is taken away.
Today, Britain will be waking up to hear that Michael Jackson died from a heart attack at his home, yesterday. No warning, no notice. Not even enough time to get him to a hospital for potential health support.
The world […]
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Stephen
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Friends and family will always (hopefully) be around you when a close family, friend or colleague dies. You’ll need their support. Sometimes, though, you need to by yourself and reading about death and how to cope with it can be equally advantageous.
This website http://www.obituarieshelp.org/ was started after the owner realized that there wasn’t really […]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Stephen
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While all UK domiciled people are entitled to the full tax free band, if your spouse or civil partner is domiciled outside of the UK, then the UK government only allows an exemption of UK inheritance tax on a band of up to £55,000.
For this lower figure to be effective, the transferor is domiciled in […]
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Stephen
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It’s not just the so called ‘regular’ person with moderate wealth who can make a hash of either not having a Will or not making it complete. Here’s a couple of examples, from a Daily Telegraph article, of how either not making your Will, or not having it witnessed can cause real family hardship, even […]
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Stephen
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What is it and why do we have them in Will Writing?
It is a clause that is almost always at the beginning of a will. It sets out the information for all to understand that this Will being written now, revokes (gets rid of) all former Wills. In other words, this is now the only […]
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Stephen
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This is the wording at the end of a last will and testament where the will is executed – in other words – signed by the testator (the person making the will) and the two witnesses.
The probate registry will need to know that this part of the will has been carried out correctly.
A will is […]
Posted on June 11th, 2009 by Stephen
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This has nothing to do with standing people up in front of a firing squad and shooting them properly, although if your Will hasn’t been executed correctly, it may become your wish.
Execution, in legal terms, is the signing and witnessing of your last will and testament – your Will. If it isn’t carried out correctly, […]
Posted on June 8th, 2009 by Stephen
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All Wills can be contested, even if the will was correctly written and executed (signed and witnessed). This may comes as a surprise to you, but it’s a guiding principal under UK law that people can check to see if the will was written correctly and a judge will decide, even if he refuses the […]
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Stephen
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This isn’t a trick question. The answer would usually strike you as obvious, but a quirk of the law shows us that words we believe we know, mean something else in law.
You’d usually associate being a ‘tenant’ as being someone that pays rent on a property you don’t own. This is true. However you can […]
Posted on June 1st, 2009 by Stephen
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