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Private Individuals
All members of the firm advise on all manner of legal issues faced by individuals. We take a particular interest in the decisions facing elderly clients in managing their property and planning for their future and that of their families.
We are pleased to be able to supplement our private client services with professional financial advice that we ourselves cannot provide; we do this though our association with Cane Cohen Limited, Independent Financial Advisors.(www.canecohen.co.uk). We draw your attention to the detail of our involvement in the separate page on Financial Services.
Please see our separate pages on some of the topics below. The list is not exhaustive and we may suggest an initial interview to explore legal issues with you if you contact us with the details:
House (and flat) purchases, sales, & re-mortgages
domestic property sales and purchases
freehold title and leaseholds
re-mortgages
transfers of equity
deeds of trust relating to shares of ownership
property development
Tenancy agreements and housing issues
creation of tenancies
termination of tenancies, by either party
disrepair disputes
Wills, Trusts and associated tax advice
Drafting of Wills, including joint Wills
Creation of Will trusts
Referral for financial advice
Capital and Inheritance tax advice
Concerns of Elderly Clients
Gifts of property and tax planning
Effect of retaining benefit of gift
Budget changes and the effect on disposition of property
Preservation of assets
Implications of Local authority compared to Health Authority care
Probate matters, including disputes
Administration and winding up of estates, both as
Professional Executors and in assisting private executors
Tracing beneficiaries
Probate disputes
Advice on and administration of Will trusts
Variation of Wills
Inheritance Tax advice
Family & child law and relationship matters
agreements between individuals on co-habitation and on separation
all manner of disputes within separating families
all matters relating to children
parental responsibility
financial division and claims on separation
divorce, dissolution and judicial separation
Child Support Agency claims, variations and appeals
Employment advice and representation at tribunal
All manner of agreements and dispute
Advice to Employee and Employer
Compromise agreements
Human rights matters, Public Law & Judicial Review
Local Authority obligations
Education authority actions
Judicial review of all manner of decisions of authorities
Contract and Consumer law
contract interpretation and disputes that may arise
Sale of Goods, Hire Purchase, fitness for purpose
business and private individual
Personal injury
accidents at work
accidents as a result of highway disrepair
liability to the public
“no win, no fee” costs agreements
Professional negligence
all manner of professional negligence
resolution though reports to ombudsmen
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