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Drafting wills and administering estates
Contains will precedents, IHT returns and probate precedents. Contentious trusts and estates covers the disputes that can frequently arise.
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An executor named in a Will cannot be found and is thought to have died. What steps can be taken to locate them or to ascertain whether they are in fact dead?
If an executor lives abroad and does not wish to renounce their appointment, does the original will have to be sent to them or is it possible for them to sign a certified copy?
Does interest accrued on pecuniary legacies during the administration of an estate count towards the nil rate band allowance in a discretionary trust?
Fees—Wills & Probate
Fees—Wills & ProbateRegistration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/911, Sch 1Land Registration...
Associated legal terms
Devastavit
Wasting of assets
Revocation of a will
A will is revocable at any time during the testator's lifetime and can be revoked by: 1. marriage or civil partnership; 2. divorce; 3. another will or codicil; 4. writing, duly declaring an intention to revoke; 5. the testator or someone in his presence and by his direction burning, tearing or otherwise destroying the will with the intention of so doing; 6. the revival of a previous will; 7. a duly executed obliteration, interlineation or other alteration; or 8. by such an unexecuted obliteration as renders what is obliterated no longer apparent.
Substitutional legacy
Legacies of equal amount given by the same instrument are prima facie substitutional.
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