Estate planning is part of comprehensive financial planning. It includes making a will. If you don’t make a will before your death, you will die intestate. In that case, your assets will be ...

Financial planning means giving thought to how you want to manage your investments and other assets during your lifetime. But it also means taking a longer view and considering what will happen to ...

Our legal system provides for freedom of testation, which means that a person writing their will can provide for the distribution of their estate among friends, family, spouses and charities as they ...

Cohabitants who have lived together for more than five years could be given the same rights on death as married couples under plans unveiled by the Law Commission. Cohabitants who have lived together ...

A Will Aid poll has revealed 69% of people in the West Midlands believe the law of intestacy should be changed to offer legal protections for unmarried couples without a Will - now public support for ...

I read with interest the short article on the current intestacy rules. The situation needs a considerable overhaul but I doubt whether this or any other government will find time to grasp the nettle ...

A Will Aid poll has revealed 67% of people in Scotland believe the law of intestacy should be changed to offer legal protections for unmarried couples without a Will ...