The duties of an executor can be onerous, and you might not be in the right frame of mind to properly administer a loved one's Will. We go through the areas that an executor has to cover: lifetime gifts, advertising for beneficiaries and creditors, Will searches, determining digital assets, genealogy, and Section 160 Valuations.
Contentious probate covers disputes over who inherits and how an estate is handled. This guide explains when a Will can be challenged, who can claim under the Inheritance Act 1975, what happens on intestacy, and how executors can be held to account.
When you sell a property, do you have to disclose its problems? For the most part, no, but there is one important exception. Mark Taylor explains latent title defects, what the courts have decided, and why disclosing early is usually the cheaper path.
