Inception film highlights legal services

Inception is the new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Michael Caine. It starts by telling us about the ways that dreams can be implanted into people so they dream what they’re told to dream about. Whether it’s possible or not isn’t the problem; the difficulty is in the legal services they need to […]

How do you value your estate?

After someone dies, their estate needs to be valued. You’ll need to know what their ‘financial’ value was at the time of their death. At the other end of the scale, you’ll also need to know what their debts were. Debts don’t just disappear when someone dies, but if their assets aren’t more than their […]

Where your inheritance went

Did your family throw away most of your inheritance by giving it to the government in speeding fines?
New figures show speed cameras earn money for the Government, but do not reduce casualties on the road. Immediately people will agree with this statement because they believed it all along (Canada withdrew them for this very reason […]

Forced retirement?

Paul the octopus has retired. There’s always the question of when you should retire, providing health doesn’t stop you from making that choice. It’s how you’ve planned for your time in retirement that really dictates when you can retire.
Paul has been extremely lucky or in some people’s eyes, skillful, recently. He managed to guess the […]

Tell the government which laws to change

Brits now have the opportunity to go online to a special government website and suggest which laws should be changed and which red tape should be finished.
There’s no doubt that the previous government had gone new law ‘crazy’ and introduced ‘red tape’ burdens on both individuals and family. They hid behind the threat or terrorism […]

60 down, just four to go

This isn’t anything about life expectancy or knowing you’ve four years to live, although both those comments can raise a full conversation on a regular basis. Life expectancy gets longer, but isn’t relative to any of us because of individual family history, health and fitness. As to knowing how long we have to live, medical […]