A Step-by-Step Guide to Wills and Probate explains how to write a simple will, and how to deal with the affairs of someone who has died. This new edition is completely revised and updated, and is written in plain language by authors who have many years' experience in the probate offices. It explains when you can do things yourself and when you need a solicitor. The subjects covered include: -Making your will: why do it; how to do it; appointing executors, the different gifts that can be made; how to make sure the will is valid and will be put into effect; examples -Who may apply for probate: how to work out who, of the relatives and friends left behind, is the one to sort out a deceased person's affairs. Who inherits if there is no will? -The estate: making sure that all the property and debts are found -Inheritance Tax: working out if tax has to be paid, how much, and the arrangements for paying it -Filling in the forms: essential paperwork, with examples. Will drafting/tax law/court forms and precedents updated to January 2011 -Going to court: the procedure for visiting the probate registry to finalise paperwork -Administering the estate: collecting together the property; paying the debts, distributing the inheritances

A Step-By-Step Guide to Wills and Probate

A.K. Biggs

Administrative Law

Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing

The third edition of this popular title provides a practical and comprehensive reference for all those concerned in drafting and interpreting wills, and in giving effect to their provisions. The commentary is supported throughout by an extensive range of specimen clauses and model wills are provided in a separate appendix. All precedent material is included on the accompanying CD-Rom, enabling practitioners to adapt precedents for their own use.  Fully updated, A Practitioner's Guide to Wills features a new chapter on the use of Pilot Trusts and deals with the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Charities Act 2006 and Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009. It examines the impact of the legislative changes in recent years to tax planning, notably the new capital gains tax regime and the radical changes to the IHT treatment of trusts, particularly those affecting provision in wills for spouses and civil partners and children. The impact on planning and drafting is also considered, together with the role that the nil rate discretionary trust might still have to play in financial planning notwithstanding the introduction of the transferable nil-rate band between spouses and civil partners. The chapter on testamentary capacity has been fully revised in the light of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its effect on the application of the Banks v Goodfellow test as considered in recent cases including Re Perrins, Re Ritchie and Key v Key.

A Practitioner's Guide to Wills

Lesley C. King

Callow Publishing Ltd

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A Step-By-Step Guide to Wills and Probate

A Practitioner's Guide to Wills