Private Client

• Family and Matrimonial

  • Adoption Process Explained
  • Business Assets and Divorce
  • Care Orders - New Procedures
  • Child Custody Explained
  • Civil Partnerships - What they Mean for You
  • Cohabitation Agreements - Protection for Unmarried Couples
  • Divorce and Foreign Nationality
  • Divorce and Money
  • Guide to Adoption Process
  • Inheritance - What is Normal Matters
  • Living Together Agreements
  • Lords Divorce Cases - Contribution and Expectation Matter
  • Parental Responsibility
  • Pension Sharing Take Care
  • Post-Nuptial Agreements - the Basics
  • Pre-Nuptial Agreements: The Coming Thing
  • School Bullying - Is the Tide Turning?
  • Taking Children into Care - The Legal Process
  • The Child Trust Fund
  • The Process of Divorce

• General

  • Charity Trustees - Guidance
  • Check Your Home Insurance Policy
  • Compensation for Loss of a Chance
  • Correcting Your Credit Rating
  • Faulty Goods: Know Your Rights
  • Keeping Your Identity Safe
  • Neighbours From Hell: Local Authority Powers Enhanced
  • Pieces of Eight - The Law
  • Protection from Unfair Selling Practices - Enhanced Protection
  • Risks for Trustees
  • Undue Influence A Clarification of the Law
  • When is a Package Tour Not a Package Tour

• Residential Property

  • Accessing Your Own Land
  • Acquisition of Land Can Have Unforeseen Consequences
  • Conversion into Dwellings Means More Dwellings!
  • Current Laws on Electrical Work
  • HIPs - Frequently Asked Questions
  • How Do We Set Up a Commonhold?
  • Leaseholders' Right to Manage
  • Misdescription Costs - Or Not
  • Phone Masts - The Law and Practice
  • Selling Your House and Land: Tax Tips
  • Squatters Rights Not Illegal - European Court
  • Tenants Right to Buy
  • The Duties of Mortgage Lenders
  • Timeshares - Good or Bad?
  • What is a Tenants Improvement?
  • When Can I Access My Neighbour's Land?
  • Who Can Go Where?

• Tax and Financial Planning

  • Are You a Sophisticated Investor?
  • Capital Gains Tax for Owners of Two Homes
  • Equity Release
  • Fiscal Help for your Student Children
  • How Drawdown Lifetime Mortgages Work
  • How Inheritance Tax Works
  • IHT Planning and the AIM
  • Is Your Home Your Pension?
  • Paying For a Permanent Home Care Place
  • Putting Cash into a Family Business
  • Selling Your House and Land: Tax Tips
  • Should I Buy To Let?
  • The Enterprise Investment Scheme
  • Unit-linked or With-profits: What's the Difference?
  • Unlocking Your Equity - the Choices
  • What is Phased Retirement?
  • What is Taxable?
  • Year End Tax Planning Checklist

• Trust, Wills and Probate

  • Asset Valuation Problems - Chattels
  • Avoiding Inheritance Tax with Discounted Gift Schemes
  • CGT and Shares in Estates Valuation Trap
  • Changing Wills For Benefit
  • Charity Donations Through the Tax Return
  • Cohabitees and Death - Who Can Claim?
  • Helping Your Executors
  • How do I Leave Money to Charity in My Will?
  • Inheritance - What is Normal Matters
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney
  • Mental Capacity Code of Practice
  • Mental Capacity and Carers
  • Mental Capacity - The Law
  • Statutory Wills
  • The Public Guardianship Office - Helping Those Who Cannot Help Themselves
  • The Unclaimed Assets Register
  • Varying Wills After Death
  • What Happens on Intestacy?
  • What is a Spouse?
  • Who Decides Your Final Resting Place?
  • Who is Under the Influence?