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1975 Act claims: Accommodating need
Mark Blackett-Ord reports on an unusually successful award for adult children under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 ‘If the first instance judge concluded that the amount that he was provisionally awarding to each claimant was not excessive for that claimant’s maintenance, and that it was all the estate could afford, then …
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- Bank of Scotland v Pereira & ors [2011] EWCA Civ 241
- Ilott v The Blue Cross & ors [2017] UKSC 17; [2017] WTLR 533 SC
- Lomax & ors v Greenslade (2018) unreported Central London County Court HHJ Bailey 3 January
- Lomax & ors v Greenslade [2018] EWHC 2623 (Ch) (to be reported in the next issue of Wills and Trusts Law Reports)
- Re Dennis deceased [1981] 2 All ER 140