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...The hit to charities is the latest sign that a logjam in probate processing by HM Courts & Tribunal Service is having a broad impact....
...If the court finds evidence that the executor has not fulfilled their duties, the court can remove the executor and appoint a replacement to carry out the estate administration....
...Almost 390 probate disputes were brought before the High Court over the first nine months of 2023, more than double that in the same period in 2016....
...In Scotland, the process involves applying to the local sheriff’s court to confirm officially the executor’s authority to administer the estate....
...Care must also be taken if, for example, your wife becomes a substantial shareholder in the UK family consultancy business....
...It can end up in court — probate disputes brought before the High Court in the first nine months last year had more than doubled the number in the same period seven years earlier....
...You will need to speak with a family lawyer (if you haven’t already) and a wills and probate lawyer....
...This is because, given the options available to parties in the above scenario, claims can be, and often are, settled relatively quickly without recourse to court....
...“They had raised a young family in this flat. I guess they agreed with me that London is being ruined by cash buyers and oligarchs,” she says....
...Most attempts to block probate — known as caveats — are made by family members suspicious about the latest version of the deceased person’s will....
...Katherine Pymont, a senior associate in the contentious trusts and probate team at law firm Kingsley Napley, says cases like this sadly occur all too often....
...Emily Robertson, a wills, trusts and probate specialist at Burgess Mee Family Law, says there are more cost-efficient ways to make small amendments to a will than producing a new one....
...The Man in the Corduroy Suit (Bitter Lemon Press, £9.99) unfolds in London and the decidedly less exotic Diss, Norfolk....
...Much as in Dickens’ Jarndyce vs Jarndyce, drawn-out family disputes over property and other assets often clog up the courts. Modernising bankruptcy law barely makes a dent in India’s legal backlog....
...Emma Chamberlain, a barrister at Pump Court Tax Chambers, says: “Trusts enable assets in different jurisdictions to be held without the need for complicated and long probate procedures on a death.”...
...My desk and young family are at home in London, less than 50 miles away. My phone is all but redundant without WiFi or reliable reception. I scroll instead through novel thoughts....
...According to a court official, when the Crown Estate wanted to sell a block of affordable housing in London in the 2000s, worried tenants complained to the Queen....
...Joanne Edwards, partner and mediator and head of the family department at Forsters law firm, says in a move to reduce the number of divorcing couples going through the court system, the mediation voucher...
...I am preparing to apply for probate for his estate, most of which he wanted bequeathed to a local charity....
...Covid is no longer an excuse for delayed passports and grants of probate, logjam in the courts, and other functions which should be a given in any democracy....
...Hello and welcome to the working week, First, thank you to Georgina for holding the Week Ahead fort while I took a break with my family on the North Norfolk coast — great for holidays, bad for house-hunters...
...Champ, by New York-based British artist Zoë Buckman, was installed just a few weeks before the 2018 Academy Awards, but following the recent US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs Wade, its bright,...
...My family — my partner, two teenage children and I — will be moving shortly to the UK under the government’s resettlement route....
...Sadly, it is increasingly commonplace and challenging for family members....
...The courts are then taking up to nine weeks to review and confirm the grant of probate, and only when you have that are you able to go back to asset holders and seek release of the funds....
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