Can you imagine a situation where you couldn’t make your own decisions? Where for some reason, you’re not in a state where you can decide what happens to you? What medication you take? What clothes you wear? You can’t even decide what food you eat or where you’ll live. And sitting in the cold light …
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It’s a little-known problem with remarriage and your Will that can devastate entire families. It’s simply this: if you die and your partner remarries, your kids can lose everything. Here’s how it can happen. Imagine you have kids and the unthinkable happens and your spouse dies. Everything passes to you, which is just how you …
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Although it’s not something which happens often, when it does, it’s a nightmare for the family. I’m talking about the situation where perhaps you’ve been taken suddenly ill or perhaps injured in an accident and there’s no hope of recovery… and the only thing keepng you alive is the machines. Not something any of us …
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Let’s face it, things don’t always turn out the way we expected them to, and for any one of a dozen different reasons, you might have a child, relative or even a spouse whom you do not want to inherit a share of your estate if something should happen to you. And making a Will …
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Sometimes, either through illness or accident it happens that one of you, husband or wife, is for whatever reason suddenly lacking in the mental capacity to make decisions about your own money and property. And if you haven’t made arrangements to have what’s called lasting power of attorney you have to go through a sometimes …
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A lot of Will writers will incorrectly tell you the Government has “taken care” of the complaints people had about inheritance tax. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything. They’ve “taken care” of themselves is what they mean. Make sure you don’t pay an additional £124,800 in tax … Take the case of my …
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