Estate Planning: Farmer succeeds in proprietary estoppel claim against his own son!!!
In yet another family farm dispute, and there have been many recently, farmer JM Gee has made a successful proprietary estoppel claim on £8 million of farm assets, on the basis that his father assured him for 30 years that…
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Estates may be undervalued as digital assets potentially go undeclared
Executors could be unwittingly undervaluing a deceased’s estate by failing to declare unsuspected digital assets such as online bank accounts, Paypal accounts, cryptocurrency, ownership of internet domains and so on, says the Institute of Legacy Management. Its response to the…
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Whither Inheritance Tax? Big Changes in 2018 ???
Inheritance tax (IHT) has been around for more than 300 years. In its current form, it replaced the old Capital Transfer Tax, which had been developed with a philosophical basis – to protect the poor by deliberately redistributing inherited wealth…
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