The official line from the Land Registry is that you are not able to change form Joint owners of a Property to Tenants in Common after the death of a Joint owner, however, a similar effect on the asset can be achieved by the careful use of a Deed of Variation if created within two years of the Joint owners death with the permission of the surviving owner. There’s a note about it on our Tenants... 

Business in Wills It is increasingly important to leave family with access to your online life, but organising virtual assets presents some hurdles and America are leading the way in addressing the problems. In the morning, many of us reach first for our screens. We check our ‘phones before we get out of bed. We scroll through our inbox before we have a coffee. Our News Feed, our Twitter feed, it’s... 

Business in Wills The Legal Services Board (LSB), which oversees the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales, has put forward proposals for the regulation of willwriting. Whether or not to regulate will-writing and estate administration services has long been debated. But the LSB has now reviewed all of the available evidence about the problems suffered by some consumers in these areas. It has conducted...