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Will Precedents

Precedents covering the most common scenarios in this area. Drafting notes accompany each clause - incorporating the latest developments like Will drafting considerations for inheritance tax residence nil rate band.

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Our Court of Protection topic covers both property and finance, and health and welfare Court of Protection applications. It’s geared at both the Court of Protection specialist practitioner and the occasional user.

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Topics include beneficial ownership transparency, the Money Laundering Regulations, the Trust Registration Service, obligations relating to data protection and GDPR and offences under the Bribery Act 2010.

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If a partner in a farming partnership gifts a share in the partnership and later has an overdrawn partnership account, can this constitute a gift with reservation of benefit for IHT purposes?
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Is an application for pre-action disclosure appropriate in an estate dispute between beneficiaries and personal representatives where the beneficiaries are seeking information on the estate administration and assets and have not applied for an order for an inventory and account?
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The deceased left a share of the residue to a discretionary trust to protect her disabled children. Can the discretionary trust be appointed into a vulnerable person's trust and can the residence nil rate band be claimed?
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Would the residence nil rate band (RNRB) be available if 50% of the residuary estate (which includes a property) is left on a flexible immediate post-death interest (IPDI) to an adult child? Would the RNRB be lost if the flexible IPDI contained an overriding power of appointment in favour of a class of discretionary beneficiaries living or born during the trust period?
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What is the position on the interpretation of EU case law relating to EU Directives post IP completion day? In cases concerning retained EU-derived domestic legislation which implements an EU Directive, are UK courts and tribunals bound or permitted to have regard to EU case law on that Directive even though the Directive itself is not retained?
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Cadastral map

The cadastral map is a map of Scotland showing the totality of registered real rights in land. It consists of cadastral units, which each represent a single registered plot of land. Cadastral units include geospatial data, including rights and burdens pertaining to each registered plot. All applications to register an unregistered plot of land must sufficiently describe that plot for the Registers of Scotland to delineate it on the cadastral map. See Registers of Scotland—the cadastral map.

Contingent interest

A future interest under a trust which is deferred until the determination of a preceding interest and for the time being it is uncertain if it will ever take effect at all. See also ‘vested in interest’.

Testator (fem. testatrix)

An individual who has executed a Will.
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