Adult children – Law Journals

Claims by adult child beneficiaries: Is there any hope after Miles v Shearer?

Amanda Noyce reviews the latest cases under the 1975 Act and summarises the lessons on funding such claims With regard to adult able-bodied children, there is a need to ‘prove something more’ than just the qualifying relationship. ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’ is a great self-motivational message – until there’s an inheritance involved. …

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Adult children: End of the road

Anna Shadbolt and Philippa Davies reflect on the limits of financial provision for adult children The decision in Siddiqui could be viewed as a simple restatement of the boundaries of the current law, without going any further, but it could also constitute a useful clarification of the existing law in the event of claims by …

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Family provision: A new approach to an old dilemma?

Heather Conway and Sheena Grattan look at family provision, adult children and property transfers In our opinion, it would be wrong to read Noble as signalling a fundamentally different approach, given that Noble was dealing with a very different set of factual circumstances Noble v Morrison [2020] is the first reported family provision case in …

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Adult children: No way through

Hannah Viet considers an unusual case involving a claim by an adult child against his parents and the extensive arguments submitted in support of that claim There is no jurisdiction for a child to bring a claim for financial relief against a party to a subsisting marriage. In FS v RS [2020], Sir James Munby …

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