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 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:15:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Legal Services (UK) Limited has teamed up with Children's Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF), a unique national charity fighting life-threatening liver disease, to offer its supporters the opportunity to make or update their wills at a specially discounted fee. CLDF is hoping that this special offer might encourage supporters to consider leaving ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/legal-services-uk-helps-children-with-life-threatening-liver-disease/ Sir George Pinker was the Royal gynecologist who delivered the two children of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Princes William and Harry. He left one and a half million pounds sterling in his estate. The bulk of that estate went to his four children, Ian, William, Robert, Catherine. Sir George died ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/gynecologist-leaves-15-million/ We all say we trust our doctors with our lives, but how do we trust others with our money if we're not around or able to manage that money? This can be looked at from two points of view; 1. The trustees you appoint if it’s a trust you’re setting up and ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/are-trustees-trustworthy/ Fire damage can hit your home; you could lose your house. What would you do about all those important pieces of paperwork and other essentials that you’d need to replace if your originals burnt? You need an airplane’s ‘black box’. Your ‘black box’ is a fire proof safe to keep your ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/why-you-need-a-fire-proof-safe/ Your professional consultant that helps you with the drafting of your power of attorney will ask you a number of questions that are designed to ensure that you know exactly what you’re doing, that you’re making your own choices and that you complete the paperwork correctly. After we’ve talked about a ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/making-sure-your-power-of-attorney-is-correct/ The Office of the Public Guardian (Scotland) - website http://www.publicguardian-scotland.gov.uk/ - has announced price increases from 1st August 2008. In particular the fee for registering a Power of Attorney (POA) has now increased from the previous £60 to a new figure of £65. This follows a consultation on increases to ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/registration-costs-go-up/ A client has asked us the following question about care home fees and how the local authority decides who pays: Could I have some feed back on the limit of the Local Authority (LA) powers to claw back fees against property owned by the daughter and only child of an elderly ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/local-authority-powers/ 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 ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/leave-mummy-nothing/ 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 ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/rspca-get-23-million-inheritance/ 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 ... http://www.legalsuk.com/blog/nothing-is-certain-but-death-and-taxes/