You Can’t Put a Price on Children’s Welfare – High Court Makes the Point
The High Court commended a local authority for its willingness to spend more than £490,000 a year on a deeply disturbed boy’s placement in a specialist children’s home.
The High Court commended a local authority for its willingness to spend more than £490,000 a year on a deeply disturbed boy’s placement in a specialist children’s home.
If your marriage has come to an end, reaching an oral agreement with your ex as to how marital assets should be divided may seem the simplest course.
If someone on whom you depended for support has died without making reasonable financial provision for you, you should consult a solicitor without delay.
The question of who is to blame for the breakdown of a marriage is often uppermost in divorcees’ minds, but it is hardly ever relevant when it comes to fairly dividing up assets.
When you are going through a Divorce, your emotions will be all over the place and it can be difficult to make the right decisions. Give yourself time to let your emotions calm down so you can think clearly and try and sort things out sensibly and when you feel the time is right.
The advent of so-called ‘no fault’ divorce is on the horizon but, until then, a great many divorce petitions will continue to be issued on the basis of unreasonable behaviour by one party or the other.
Trusts are complex legal instruments and any flaws in the wording of documents relating to them can have grave tax and other consequences.
If you are of sound mind when you make your will, the law presumes that you both know and approve of its contents.
Making a will when you are close to death and without professional assistance is an effective means of fostering dispute between your loved ones after you are gone.
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