Probate Disputes and Remedies provides clear, concise, and in-depth guidance to the law and procedure of contentious UK probate. Adopting a problem-solving approach, this second edition highlights specific difficulties that are likely to be encountered in practice, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each course of action, and points out the potential pitfalls along the way. The book discusses pre-death issues, death and burial disputes, problems with wills, estate administration disputes, claims against personal representatives, validity claims, disappointed beneficiary claims, and professional advisers and disgruntled beneficiaries. Expertly drafted UK precedents, including model letters and pleadings, provide the reader with a time-saving and practical resource.
Providing an in-depth discussion of contentious probate, this manual explains the law and procedure in this area in a concise fashion.
The book comprehensively covers issues relating to the problems which can arise from poor drafting and a failure to investigate sufficiently all the circumstances relating to the testator/testatrix.
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... Lightman J said at 1224 that in a 'beneficiaries dispute' costs follow the event, citing McDonald v Horn (n 169) at 971, per Hoffmann LJ, referring to hostile claims by beneficiaries against trustees or other beneficiaries.
remedy is '[enforceable] without further court proceedings'.52 If so, it is 'immediately enforceable'.53 ... examples of constitutive remedies: adoption orders, marriage dissolution orders and grants of probate.55 Putting to one side ...
The Intellectual Property List, which incorporates the Patents Court (disputes about patents, registered designs and ... The Property, Trusts and Probate List, which covers much of what would traditionally be regarded as Chancery work ...
Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession
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In this pioneering book, Cunningham arranges selected contributions of his faculty's scholarship into a meditation upon justice. The book weaves a combination of theory and practice to articulate moral and...