Archive for August 2016

More than half a million people have opened Help to Buy ISAs in just six months, according to the latest government figures. The ISAs became available last December. They are very attractive to first time buyers because the government has agreed to add a 25% bonus to a person’s savings as long as the money…

A landed family have amended a trust to ensure that if any of their descendants are gay, their partners will have the same inheritance rights as heterosexual spouses. The Pembertons have lived at Trumpington Hall in Cambridgeshire for three centuries. The hall has often been used for as a location for films and TV programmes…

A father had understood what he was doing when he left his daughters out of his will and made specific provisions for the division of his estate. That was the decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of two daughters who believed their father had been subjected to undue influence shortly before his…