Practical guidance from Simon Jenkins, Director at Curtis Legal.
How Section 27 Trustee Act 1925 notices in The Gazette and local press protect executors from personal liability for unknown creditors in England and Wales.
Read more →Missing beneficiaries can leave executors personally liable. Learn how statutory notices, tracing, insurance and Benjamin orders protect you.
Read more →Losing someone is hard enough without worrying about work. A clear guide to your UK bereavement leave rights — child, partner, parent, or other family.
Read more →A probate caveat stops a grant being issued while a dispute is looked at. Curtis Legal explains when, how, and what happens if pushed back C
Read more →A deed of variation allows beneficiaries to redirect an inheritance after death. Curtis Legal explains the two-year rule and how tax read-back works.
Read more →Digital assets from crypto to PayPal and social media form part of almost every modern estate. Our probate team explains how executors handle them.
Read more →Simon Jenkins explains how to remove or replace an executor in England and Wales, from passing over and citation to section 50 court applications.
Read more →Cohabiting partners have no automatic inheritance rights in England and Wales. Simon Jenkins explains intestacy, IHT and the 1975 Act Contac
Read more →What to expect at your first meeting with a probate solicitor: what to bring, what we discuss and how costs are explained.
Read more →Can beneficiaries speed up probate? What you can do, your rights to information and when to take action against a slow executor.
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