Michele Fuller, Founder and Managing Partner of the Michigan Law Center, PLLC, speaks on elder law planning; thinking about life after death is not on the topic of everyone’s list, but Michele touches on the importance of it. Her firm is focused on planning for persons with disabilities of all ages, preserving assets and helping […]
Over the last couple of years, Goran Studen has specialised in advising Ultra High Net Worth Individuals (UHNWI), institutional clients and family offices in all aspects of estate planning and inheritance law. He says: “As Managing Partner at JSP Jakob Studen Partner my focus is to develop our law firm in terms of broadening our […]
“International HNWIs must plan for additional events which do not concern a domestic client, such as pre-arrival planning, or where they plan to leave the UK”, says Joe Cobb an Associate in the Private Capital team at Addleshaw Goddard. “Such clients often have an array of professional advisers and the ability to work with other […]
Latest figures estimate that over 130,000 people living in the community aged 65+ have suffered financial abuse at some point since turning 65*. This, it would appear, is only the tip of a largely unreported financial abuse iceberg, according to David Lockwood of Finders International. The UK’s current demographic is providing near perfect conditions for […]
Esther Woodhouse, Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and Probate specialist lawyer at Roythornes said: “The online service is part of wider Government plans to reform the justice system and deliver a modern service to improve the efficiency of the probate application process. “Although I agree with the move to enhance the procedure, […]
A High Court senior judge has recently suggested that living wills should be compulsory, to set out a statement of wishes in the event of an incapacitating illnesses. Mr Justice Francis said: "It should be compulsory that we all have to make living wills because these cases would be resolved much more easily. "We all […]
Legal specialists are urging Government to do more to protect older people and help them plan ahead for later life. A survey of SFE (Solicitors for the Elderly) lawyers, whose members specialise in advising older and vulnerable clients, found that 80% of lawyers think there are not enough safeguards in place to protect people from […]
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