Regardless of personal opinions and reasons for deciding to marry or not to marry, the law simply does not recognise cohabiting couples when it comes to inheritance.
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The fact that Neves is 150 years old this year led us to wonder what events were going on in the country in 1867, and so we took to a very popular internet search engine to find out!
Most of the events which popped up were political, so it may be considered a little impolite to discuss them in our blog, but there was one notable event involving the famous Thomas Barnardo which caught our eye.
When we are drawing up Wills for clients who have children and grandchildren, we find that most of our clients want to benefit their family, and if possible pay as little Inheritance Tax as they legally can, so that future generations can benefit from the value of their property and their life savings.
Life used to be less complicated when passing on such assets as photographs, CDs, DVDs and books. Notebooks and diaries filled your ideas and thoughts. These items were normally held in physical form and distributed to family and friends or in accordance with a person’s wishes when they died.
The Duke of Westminster died on 9 August 2016 with his title passing to his son, Hugh. The estimated value of land owned by the Grosvenor family is on the region of around £9 billion.
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