- Industry: Law
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Niche solicitors practice specialising in probate, wills and powers of attorney. We provide clients with an efficient and caring service for a sensible pre-agreed fee. We give sound practical advice in a language our clients can understand, and in the case of probate aim to complete probate and ...
Latin term used to describe when mentally impaired persons cannot validly sign a will.
Industry:Legal services
Issued to the executor of a will to enable them to distribute the estate.
Industry:Legal services
A document issued by the court which enables the person or people named in it to deal with all assets of a deceased person (ie their estate). It allows money to be collected from any bank or building society accounts, property to be sold or transferred and for debts to be paid. There are three types of grant of representation.
Industry:Legal services
The total value of the deceased’s property before deducting liabilities.
Industry:Legal services
The people chosen by the testator to look after their children in the event of their death.
Industry:Legal services
A tax which is levied against your estate at the time of your death.
Industry:Legal services
The situation whereby someone has died without leaving a legally valid will.
Industry:Legal services
Property owned with another person. Joint tenants are usually husband and wife and in the event of the death of one tenant, the other becomes the owner of the whole property. A joint tenant cannot make a gift of their share of the property to anyone else as it is not wholly theirs to give.
Industry:Legal services
This is the documentation given by the registrar to appoint people to handle a person’s estate in cases where there are no executors appointed, still living or willing to carry out the executor’s duties. It should be noted that it is courteous to ask a person if they are happy to be an executor, before naming them in a Will.
Industry:Legal services
