Wills and Power of Attorney Below is my article about making Wills and Power of Attorney, published this week on "Award-winning lifestyle website for women", Annabel & Grace. COULD BE TIME FOR SOME LIFE ADMIN: WILLS & POWERS OF ATTORNEY Making Wills and Power of Attorney tend to languish on the to-do list somewhere below... Continue Reading →
New Inheritance Tax Relief Available To NHS Workers Who Die From Covid 19
A 100% relief from inheritance tax which was previously available to members of the Armed Forces and was more recently extended to "blue light" workers in 2015 has now been made available to emergency services workers in the NHS who die from coronavirus in the line of duty. However, a lack of awareness of this... Continue Reading →
New Advice for Deputies and Attorneys during Coronavirus
The Office of the Public Guardian has recently published some new guidance and advice for deputies and attorneys about how they should use their powers during the coronavirus outbreak. This is a particularly difficult area, because often attorneys and deputies will be acting on behalf of older people, many of whom will have accompanying medical... Continue Reading →
Stockpiling in Beaconsfield, to prepare for Coronavirus
Shelves empty of toilet rolls in Sainsburys Beaconsfield In these anxious times, we in Beaconsfield are pretty convinced that there's nothing Covid 19 can throw at us that we can't withstand, as long as we have sufficient quantities of loo roll. The shelves in Sainsburys' Maxwell Road branch in Beaconsfield are bare. Many people are... Continue Reading →
How to prepare for Coronavirus
Many people are wondering how to prepare for Coronavirus. Worryingly, 13 more cases of Coronavirus were confirmed in the UK today according to the BBC News, bringing the total number of UK cases to 36, including patients in London and Surrey. It seems inevitable now that the virus will spread more widely in the UK.... Continue Reading →