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• How is future earning potential considered in a financial settlement?
  Posted on December 9, 2024
  When you are going through a divorce, or dissolution of your civil partnership, a key concern will be to ensure that you will have financial security once it has been resolved. What each person is likely to earn in the future will be a factor that is looked at for this purpose. This may be a particular area of focus for you, if one of you gave up your career to raise the family and supported the other to progress and flourish in theirs.
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• Financial checks when buying a property
  Posted on December 5, 2024
  When your offer on a new home is accepted, you will probably want to get things moving quickly. Before your solicitor can start work, there are some important checks that they must carry out to verify your identity and check your source of funds.
  
  Sadly fraud has become an increasing problem in recent years, with professional criminals targeting conveyancers and home buyers in what are often very sophisticated scams. It can be easy to lower your guard in the excitement of buying your new home.
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• Ensuring your will is validly signed and witnessed
  Posted on December 4, 2024
  If you have gone to the trouble of drafting a will to ensure that your assets are distributed according to your wishes after you die, then it is important to ensure that the will is legally valid. A simple mistake can undo your wishes, as happened in this example.
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• What can a residuary beneficiary do if they do not agree with the final accounts?
  Posted on December 3, 2024
  When someone dies and leaves a will, the estate has to be distributed in a specific order, with debts being paid first, followed by legal and administrative expenses, and then to those who have been left specific gifts in the will. Whatever is left in the estate after all these other items have been paid goes to the residuary beneficiaries.
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• Resolving title problems when selling commercial property
  Posted on November 21, 2024
  If you are selling your commercial property, you should expect your buyer to carry out extensive due diligence before exchanging contracts. It is not unusual for that exercise to reveal some issues on the title, which could delay the transaction, cause your buyer to reduce their offer, or even walk away. The good news is that your solicitor will have a range of options to resolve most problems.
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