#Latest news with #legalstrifeTimes22-05-2025BusinessTimesAt last, a proposal to overhaul 188-year-old wills legislationDeath and taxes may be the two certainties in human existence — but legal strife is a subcategory that is rapidly attaching itself to the former. Battles over wills and inheritance are rolling before the courts in growing numbers as a boom in property prices over the past 30 years has significantly increased the value of previously modest estates. Within the past few months alone, this newspaper has reported on a court row between an alternative therapist who specialised in energy wavelength treatments and her sisters over their inheritance and two emotional support dogs, and another between an electrician and his sister over a £700,000 estate where a video showed the sister 'propelling' their mother's hand to sign a deathbed will. The wealthy
Times22-05-2025BusinessTimesAt last, a proposal to overhaul 188-year-old wills legislationDeath and taxes may be the two certainties in human existence — but legal strife is a subcategory that is rapidly attaching itself to the former. Battles over wills and inheritance are rolling before the courts in growing numbers as a boom in property prices over the past 30 years has significantly increased the value of previously modest estates. Within the past few months alone, this newspaper has reported on a court row between an alternative therapist who specialised in energy wavelength treatments and her sisters over their inheritance and two emotional support dogs, and another between an electrician and his sister over a £700,000 estate where a video showed the sister 'propelling' their mother's hand to sign a deathbed will. The wealthy
22-05-2025
