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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Businessman Jimmy Swanston assured his younger lover that she would be looked after, after he died, so his mistress knew something was wrong when his will provided her with nothing, when he died.
The man’s son is now in court accused of forging (he has denied this) his late father’s will and depriving Miss Powell of […]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by Stephen
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Released recently, Life Trust Foundation research shows that women aged 55 now have a 25% chance of living until they are 95. That’s one in four will go all the way to 95.
It also shows that most of them will live unaccompanied or in care homes. Most of them will travel lonely from life into […]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Stephen
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There can’t be many who don’t know the phrase ‘Beam me up, Scotty.’ The actor who played the part of ‘Scotty’ in the long running television science fiction programme Star Trek was James Doohan; he lived to the age of 85.
His wife Wendy said she was going to have him cremated and then have his […]
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Stephen
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компютриWith recent regulations you’ll now have to go to the Land Registry, with your passport photograph, if you want to sell your home.
If you transfer part of all of your property (whether for money or as a gift), you get a new lease on a property, a new mortgage or if you lose your title […]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Stephen
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Our non-caring government is to spend six months looking into social care to see how they can deal with the proposed £6billion shortfall in the system by 2028. They feel a radical shake up of the current system is required – as if the whole population if the UK didn’t know this already.
Personal and nursing […]
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Stephen
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A Petition to amend the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964, which entitles adult children to at least a third of the movable estate where there is a surviving spouse, has been lodged with the Scottish Parliament.
Children are entitled to half the movable estate where there is no surviving spouse.
Dingwall Solicitor, Mary McIlroy-Hipwell, who lodged the Petiton […]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Stephen
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Two sisters have finally lost their long battle with the Inland Revenue over the rights they wanted for inheritance tax relief. They took their injustice all the way to the Human Rights judges in the European Court in Strasbourg.
In a vote that was 15-2 against the ladies, Joyce Burden aged 90 and Sybil Burden […]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Stephen
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