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Handwritten wills and the Case of Aretha Franklin

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Soul singer Aretha Franklin died in 2018 without a formal Will. Under normal circumstances, Aretha’s $6 million estate in the USA would have been distributed in accordance with the intestacy rules. However, the discovery of two handwritten documents...

Death and Digital Assets

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We live in a world where most of us have digitally stored financial details, emails, music libraries, social media accounts, photos and other precious items that have monetary and emotional value to us and our loved ones. When a loved one dies or becomes...

Trust Registration Service - Have you registered your Trust yet?

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We are now coming very close to the 1 September 2022 deadline to register trusts with HMRC’s Trust Registration Service (TRS). If you are a trustee, or you administer or benefit from a trust, it’s very important that you understand how...

As an executor, how am I meant to pay inheritance tax?

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As Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’ Generally speaking, inheritance tax (IHT) is payable on the estate of someone who has died, and this is often a big concern for Personal...