Category: Wills and Probate Blog

What Happens if I Die Without a Will?

If you die without a Will in the UK, your estate is distributed under intestacy rules. See how this affects spouses, children, and partners.

Asya Erol

We’re proud to support Update Your Will Week 2024

This week is Update Your Will Week (4th – 10th March), an annual campaign hosted by The Association of Lifetime Lawyers. It aims to raise awareness around…

Anna Orpwood

What is contentious probate?

Disputes concerning wills and inheritance can be tricky and sensitive.

Kavita Rana

Have you considered making Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPAs)?

Have you put a plan in place for the future if you can no longer manage your property and financial affairs or make decisions about your health…

Anna Orpwood

Fraud and Identity Theft

We successfully acted for a client who found that his inheritance was being stolen from him

Shaun Murphy

Anna Orpwood takes part in “A Portrait of the High Street”

For hundreds of years, the high street has been the centre of communities throughout Britain

Anna Orpwood

The Legal 500 2022

Edwards Duthie Shamash are recognised in the Legal 500.

The importance of Lasting Power of Attorneys

Kate Garraway’s heart-breaking story of her husband Derek’s year-long battle with Covid has been made even more complicated by the lack of legal protection she and Derek had in place. Kate was unable…

Intestacy of Caroline Flack

Caroline Flack, the TV presenter, perhaps best known as the host of Love Island sadly died in February 2020. It has been reported that Caroline’s net state…

Why Making a Lasting Power of Attorney is important now more than ever?

You may have seen the recent news report of a qualified nurse who was arrested for “kidnapping” her elderly mother from a care home! The nurse was…

Witnessing of Wills go Digital

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lifestyles, the way we work and communicate and even the way we think about our future! This has meant more people…

Chambers & Partners 2020

Court of Protection What the team is known for Respected team frequently instructed by the Official Solicitor to act in high-profile and complex health and welfare cases….