Inheritance Claims and Challenges: A Guide to Claims Under the Inheritance Act with a Short Introduction to Challenging Testamentary Dispositions

Nasreen Pearce

Callow Publishing Ltd

Club Law Manual

Kenneth W. Pain

<p>Adoption Law Manual is an invaluable reference for all professional people concerned in the adoption of children.Under the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the welfare of the child, as under the Children Act 1989, becomes the guiding principle in adoption cases and a welfare checklist is introduced. A "no order" principle, and the assumption that delay is prejudicial, are to apply. There are new provisions on consent and advance consent to adoption. The basis for dispensing with consent is amended, the welfare of the child replacing the old requirement of "unreasonably withholding" consent. Unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, will be able to adopt. Placement orders replace freeing orders. Special guardianship is introduced as a "half-way house" affording permanence short of adoption. There is new emphasis on contact between an adopted child and his birth family and others after adoption. Local authorities must provide adoption support services.Her Honour Judge Pearce describes the principal provisions of the Act, setting her commentary in the context of the case law which remains relevant. She goes on to tackle the provisions of the extensive rules and regulations. These concern the registers: the disclosure of information about adoption; adoption agencies, adoption support agencies; and overseas adoptions, including Convention adoptions.</p>

Adoption Law Manual

HHJ Nazreen Pearce

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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

A.K. Biggs

Lesley C. King

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