Inheritance And Trustees: Moving with the times

Mark Keenan and Bethan Byrne examine changes to family provision claims ‘The s3 criteria effectively amount to a “balancing exercise” which the court must undertake to weigh up the competing factors in considering whether reasonable financial provision has been made for a claimant.’ The Law Commission project ‘Intestacy and Family Provision Claims on Death’ began …
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Intestacy And Family Provision: A welcome update

In her second article, Catherine Paget looks at the consequences for family provision claims of the Law Commission’s recent report ‘A child of the deceased and the surviving spouse could not claim at all if at least two thirds of the income of the estate had been left to the surviving spouse.’ Part 1: ‘Welcome …
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