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- What Can You Do if the Executor Role is too Much?
- What Actually Happens to Your Estate if You Don’t Have an Executor?
- Selling a Property During Probate: What Executors Need to Know
- What’s Changed with Inheritance Tax Rules for Business and Farm Owners?
- How Much Time Will You Need to Set Aside to Administer an Estate?
- Could Capital Gains Tax be Due on Your Estate?
- When Does Inheritance Tax Need to be Paid During the Probate Process?
- How to Assess an Estate After a Death
- Cross-Border Estates: Will You Need to Apply for Probate in Multiple Countries?
- How Trusts Can Help You to Provide for Dependents After Your Death
- What Should You Consider When Appointing Executors?
- Is There Anything You Can Do if You’re Struggling to Pay an Inheritance Tax Bill? March 2026
- How Much Easier is it to Administer an Estate with a Will than Without One?
- Five Questions to Ask Yourself Before Setting Up a Trust in Your Will
- Inheritance Tax Thresholds, Rules and Allowances: Everything you Need to Know for 2026
- How Much Should You Tell Your Family About What’s in Your Will?
- How International Probate Works: UK Estates with Assets in the USA
- Winding Up the Winding Up Process
- Why Making a Will isn’t a Once in a Lifetime Exercise
- Legal Considerations When Caring for an Elderly Relative
- Top Five Mistakes People Make with their Wills
- Trusts in the UK: What Are They and Who Needs One?
- Probate Made Simple: What You Need to Know
- Lasting Powers of Attorney Explained: Protecting Your Decisions
- What Happens if You Die Without a Will? August 2025
- Dealing With Probate When a UK Resident Passes Away in the USA August 2025
- When Do You Need to Seek Special Permission as an Attorney?
- The Difference Between Asking Attorneys to Work Individually or Collectively
- Who Pays the Legal Fees in a Contentious Probate Case?
- Can You Contest a Will After Probate Has Been Granted?
- Why It’s Important to Act Quickly in Contentious Probate Cases
- Top 5 Causes of Inheritance Disputes – And How to Resolve Them
- Yorkshire Legal Firm Launches Official Complaint Over “Outrageous” Probate Delays
- Planning for the Future: How to Account for Cryptocurrency in Your Will
- How to Apply to the Court of Protection
- Should You Appoint a Professional Attorney in Your LPA?
- AI’s growing influence: Navigating unique challenges in the legal profession
- Can You Still Make Legal Documents if You Have Dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease?
- The Five Most Crucial Times in Life to Make or Update Your Will
- What Do You Need to Know About Successfully Registering an LPA?
- Managing Probate After the Death of a Child or Young Person
- Do Personal Representatives Take on Legal Liability for Estates?
- Administering Cross-Border Estates: The Importance of Protecting Yourself
- How to Tell if a Will Might be Invalid
- Season’s Greetings and a New Year’s Resolution from Roche Legal
- Changes to Private Client Law in 2023
- Why Don’t We Recommend Legally Binding Mutual Wills?
- Will Tax Come Due on an Estate During the Administration Process?
- Winding Up an Estate When the Person Who Has Died Was Self-Employed
- What is Double Probate and When is it Needed?
- What Do You Need to Know About Inheritance Tax Interest?
- Where Might You Stand if Your Family Has a Disagreement About a Will?
- Could the Statutory Legacy Update Affect You?
- Gathering Evidence for an Application for a Declaration of Presumed Death
- The First Steps After Being Appointed as a Guardian for a Missing Person
- Administering an Estate with Missing Beneficiaries
- What to Do When There’s a Disagreement When Administering an Estate
- Can an LPA be Used Overseas?
- Should You Make a Separate Power of Attorney for Your Business?
- Which Country’s Succession Laws will Apply to Your Estate?
- Why is Probate Needed in the UK if Someone Dies Overseas?
- How to Administer an Estate where the Will Involves Trusts
- Selling Property and Belongings on Behalf of an Estate
- Administering an Estate with Assets Overseas
- Common Misconceptions About Probate
- Planning For a Blended Family in Your Will
- The Difference Between Solicitors, Accountants, Financial Advisors, Stockbrokers and Fund Managers
- How to Plan for Your Pet’s Future
- Supporting a Loved One who Keeps Going Missing
- Administering an Estate After a Presumption of Death
- Probate Delays: What to Expect
- When is the Right Time to Apply for a Declaration of Presumed Death?
- What Does it Mean to Act as a Guardian for a Missing Person?
- What Rights Do Family Members Have When a Loved One Goes Missing?
- Is it Against the Law to Go Missing?
- Huge Number of Trusts Yet to Be Registered With HMRC
- Could a Divorce or Dissolution in the Family Change the Intention of Your Will?
- What Rights Do Beneficiaries Have to See Information About an Estate?
- Avoiding Fraudulent Professional Trustees: Universal Wealth Preservation
- Making Legal Documents: Why Your Solicitor May Need to See You on Your Own
- Making Legal Documents: Do Couples Have to Meet a Solicitor Together?
- Power of Attorneys: What Kind of Tasks Can an Attorney Carry Out on Your Behalf?
- Who is Responsible for Deciding if Someone has Lost Mental Capacity?
- What is the Right Type of Power of Attorney for You?
- How to Start Acting as an Attorney with an LPA
- Do You Really Need a Lasting Power of Attorney?
- Preparing for a New Year by Putting Your Affairs in Order
- Help for Financial Advisors: Supporting Clients with Future Planning
- Help for Divorce Lawyers: Supporting Clients to Reconsider Future Plans
- Help for Conveyancing Solicitors: Supporting Clients Who Have Just Bought a House
- Help for Accountants: Supporting Clients in an Executor Role
- What Happens to Cryptocurrencies After Death?
- What to Do with Online Accounts After a Death
- Assessing and Securing Digital Assets: An Executor’s Responsibilities
- Do Your Family Have the Right to Access Your Online Accounts After Your Death?
- Should You Include Digital Assets in Your Will?
- How Valuable Are Your Digital Assets?
- What Rights Does Your Next of Kin Have?
- The Role of an Executor: What Does it Involve?
- Do You Need a Grant of Probate to Transfer Shares in a Business?
- Why does it take so long to receive an inheritance?
- A Brief Guide to Inheritance Tax
- What Exactly Does Probate Mean?
- Living in a Care Home: What Happens if the Money Runs Out?
- Fraudulent Wills: What About Cases of Foul Play?
- Is a Promise Enough to Win an Estate Dispute?
- How to Plan to Avoid a Will or Trust Dispute
- Can ‘Delusions’ Lead to a Dispute Over an Estate?
- What are the Most Common Reasons to Dispute a Will or Trust?
- What Happens When a Will is Contested?
- The Court of Protection and the Question of ‘Best Interests’
- Who Can Apply to the Court of Protection for Deputyship and How Long Will it Take?
- Could a Mental Health Condition Prevent You From Making Your Own Decisions?
- The First Legal Priorities When a Loved One Goes Missing
- Why Do You Need a Power of Attorney?
- How Can You Make Sure Your Will is Valid?
- Understanding Care Home Top Up Fees
- Can a Power of Attorney Put Someone in a Care Home?
- Why Bankruptcy Might Stop You Receiving an Inheritance
- How to Take Power of Attorney Away from Someone
- Can You Withdraw Money from a Dead Person’s Account?
- What is the Concept of Reasonable Provision and How Could it Affect Your Legacy?
- How to sign documents that need to be witnessed during the Coronavirus pandemic
- Do Your Inheritance Tax Plans Consider Lifetime Transfers?
- What is the Statutory Legacy Increase and What Could it Mean for Me?
- The Deputy and the DNA Test: How a Professional Deputy Aimed to Prepare for Possible Inheritance Disputes
- As a Deputy, Can I Make Gifts on Behalf of the Person I’m Protecting?
- 3 Ways of Contesting Inheritance
- Lasting Powers of Attorney: Making Sense of Attorneys Making Gifts For You
- Does it Matter ‘Who Dies First’ with Your Inheritance Plans?
- What can I do if an Attorney or Deputy is Abusing their Power?
- Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017 is Finally Coming into Force
- Death in the Digital World
- An Update on the New Missing Persons Guardianship Laws
- Delay to Increased Probate Fees
- Time limits for IPFDA claims – Are They Any Clearer Now?
- Changes to Grants of Probate
- Can a Court Overrule ‘Unwise’ Decisions Made by Someone with Mental Capacity?
- What Happens to My Loyalty Points When I Die?
- Making Contingent Gifts in Your Will
- Common Myth: Everyone ends up in a Care Home when they get old
- Myth-busters #11 – I’m married or in a civil partnership, so if I die without a Will my spouse just gets everything
- Myth-busters #10 – I can leave family members out of my Will and there’s nothing they can do about it
- What Should I Do About a Hostile or Ineffective Executor?
- Myth-busters #9 – I have been appointed as an Attorney, so I can take over my loved one’s decisions when I like
- Myth-busters #8 – I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Power of Attorney
- Myth-busters #7 – Someone with a Dementia diagnosis cannot make a Will or Power of Attorney
- Myth-busters #6 – Once a Power of Attorney is made, you can’t change it
- Power Over Life and Death: Can My Lasting Power of Attorney be Used for Assisted Dying?
- Myth-busters #5 I am entitled to know when a family member has made a Will and what it says
- Myth-busters #4 – Having a Will means you won’t need Probate or pay Inheritance Tax
- Myths about Common Law Marraige
- Trusts Explained: How They Can Help With Probate and Inheritance Tax Planning
- Making Your Inheritance Intentions Clear
- Common Myth #1: Lasting Powers of Attorney are only for people with Dementia
- Can Holiday Letting Offer You a Break From Inheritance Tax?
- Beware Attorneys Bearing Gifts: Making Payments under a Power of Attorney
- Could Dispute Mediation be the Right Way Forward?
- Your Creative Legacy – Who Will Get Your Intellectual Property When You Die?
- Do I need a solicitor to help me administer an estate?
- Do I have to repay a loan to someone who has died?
- Joint Ownership – Does Joint Money and Property pass in my Will?
- Government refund scheme launched for Powers of Attorney
- How Long Does Someone Have to Challenge my Will?
- Where There’s a Will Challenge, Who Gets Their Way?
- Inheritance Tax: the Reliefs, the Tax, and the Livery
- Advance Decisions & Life-Sustaining Treatment
- What happens to a Lasting Power of Attorney when someone dies?
- Adopted Children’s Human Rights Prove Decisive in Will Dispute
- Disinheritance by Deceit – Fraudulent Calumny
- Looking after the Property & Affairs of a Missing Person
- Act Now, Save Tax Later: Your Estate and the Residential Nil Rate Band
- Cohabiting couples: your rights under the IPFDA
- Ilott v Mitson: The Supreme Court Ends a Long Will Dispute
- You Can’t Take It With You: Claiming Financial Provision From An Estate Does Not Pass On Death
- Lasting Powers of Attorney: Can I Sell Property on Someone’s Behalf?
- Highly Strung: A Family Dispute over a Harpist’s Will
- A New Way to Save Inheritance Tax in 2017: the Residence Nil Rate Band
- How to Get Your Affairs in Order
- Protection to the Vulnerable: The lesser-known benefits of using a Solicitor for your Will
- Claim for Financial Provision is Undone by Unemployment
- Can I give assets away to avoid Care Home fees?
- When the Law Might Keep Your Promises for You: Proprietary Estoppel
- Are you paid to look after a loved one?
- The Importance of Choosing Attorneys who will Cooperate
- Recent Celebrity Deaths and what this Means for You
- When to remove a Personal Representative
- Budget Overview – March 2016
- Know your right to revoke your Power of Attorney
- The Myth of ‘Common Law’ Marriage
- Taking the Law into Your Own Hands: The Risks of Acting as Executor without Legal Advice
- New Year – Time to get organised
- Court of Protection Revokes Lasting Power of Attorney
- Don’t leave life-changing decisions to strangers
- Owning property jointly – what it means
- What’s a Guardian and do I need one?
- DIY Wills whats the danger?
- Important Information if you made a Will with HSBC
- Can my Will be ignored?
- Deeds of Variation – Government Launches Review
- The new family home allowance for Inheritance Tax
- Deeds of Variation, what are the advantages?
- Can I leave a legacy to my pet in my Will?
- Inheritance Tax threshold to increase to £1m…?
- Digital Assets – what happens to them when you die?
- Searching for Missing Heirs
- Is your Will registered?
- New Intestacy Rules have come into force
- No to digital Lasting Powers of Attorney… for now
- When is a Lasting Power of Attorney legally created?
- When is the value of your home disregarded for nursing home fees?
- Our promise to you when writing your Will
- A helping hand with Probate
- Marriage revokes a Will, but what about same-sex couples who convert their Civil Partnership to Marriage?
- Getting married soon?
- What happens to my money and property if I get Dementia?
- One in ten will pay inheritance tax by 2018
- My aunt is becoming increasingly unable to manage her affairs, what can we do?
- Do I have to provide for my children in my Will?
- Administering an Estate Involving a Partnership Business
- Calling in Debts Owed to an Estate
- Writing a Will with International Assets: What You Need to Know
- Dealing with an Estate with Significant Debts
- Secured VS Unsecured Loans in Estate Administration
- What is Forced Heirship and How Might it Affect You?
- Is Probate Needed After the Death of a Child or Young Person?
- What’s the Difference Between an Executor and an Administrator?
- What to Do if You Have Concerns About the Conduct of a Personal Representative
- What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for You?
- What do you Need to Know About Probate and Administering an Estate?
- Inheritance Tax: The Basics
- Legal profession needs a change of mindset to embrace AI
- Growth expert Gary Lumby joins Roche Legal as CEO
- Rachel Roche wins prestigious Yorkshire leadership award
- Rachel Roche Shortlisted for Yorkshire Leadership Award
- Award winning lawyer helping Yorkshire change London-centric view of legal profession
- Making a Will the most important family New Year resolution
- Roche Legal shortlisted in The Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards 2024
- Grace Buckland Shortlisted for York Press Business Award
- Roche Legal features in two York Press Business Awards finalists categories
- Roche Legal shortlisted at the 2023 Yorkshire Legal Awards
- Historically important York synagogue central to missing persons case
- Rachel Roche shortlisted for two prestigious Modern Law Private Client Awards 2023
- York solicitor appointed to key international role
- Dignity Action Day with Bluebird Care
- Making a Will on the “back burner” for 57 % of the UK
- Roche Legal backing national Update Your Will Week 2023 campaign
- Award winning York solicitor launches ground breaking international legal service
- Yorkshire solicitor launches Law Society ground breaking advice book
- Kate Garraway’s harrowing story highlights vital legal issue
- Roche Legal wins the 2020 Reisman Award for Legal Innovation
- Yorkshire MP backs changes to making a Will to bring “peace of mind” during COVID-19 pandemic
- Top Yorkshire Solicitor Supports Moves To Help 30m Without Wills As Covid-19 Pandemic Sees Spike In Demand
- Award winning Rachel Roche teams up with Sir Geoff Hurst
- Multi-award-winning Roche Legal recognised by STEP
- Rachel Roche signs publishing deal with Law Society Publishing
- Government Scrap Planned Increases in Probate Fees
- Roche Legal Win Top Yorkshire Award
- Roche Legal Shortlisted For Business Innovation Of The Year
- Roche Legal Shortlisted For Another Top Award
- York MP backs call for action on massive probate fee rises
- Yorkshire Legal Awards 2019 Finalist
- Bereaved Yorkshire families forced to wait months to sort out financial affairs
- Local MPs Support Serious Concerns Over “Tax on Grieving Families”
- Karl Lagerfeld Follows Britain’s Pet Lead
- Social responsibility, our driving passion at Roche Legal
- York Solicitor Wins Top Law Society Award
- York Law Firm Shortlisted for Prestigious Yorkshire Legal Award
- York’s Rachel Roche shortlisted for prestigious legal awards
- Report reveals 77% of Yorkshire and Humber residents fear impact of dementia
- All About Wills – Podcast
- Solicitor targets Will “apathy” with new technology
- Helping York be ‘Heart Safe’
- Delays with Government Bodies: What to Expect
- When you need to apply for a Probate and when you don’t
- Administering the Estate of the Director of a Limited Company
- Administrating Cross-Border Estates: The Importance of Protecting Yourself
- What do you need to know about Inheritance Tax Interest?
- Where might you stand if your family has a disagreement about a Will
- The first steps after being appointed as a guardian for a missing person
- Why is probate needed in the UK if someone dies overseas
- Managing Probate Overwhelm
- Understanding the Probate Timeline
- Applying for Probate: The Benefits of Instructing a Solicitor
- Common misconceptions about Probate
- Administering an estate after a presumption of death
- Making legal documents: Why your solicitor may need to see you on your own
- Making legal documents: Do couples have to meet a solicitor together
- How to plan to avoid a Will or Trust dispute
- How much does it cost to go to court over a Will?
- What are the most common reasons to dispute a Will or Trust?
- Who can apply to the Court of Protection for Deputyship and how long will it take?
- The Court of Protection and the Questions of “Best Interest”
- Why do you need a Power of Attorney?
- How often should I update my Will?
