A 28-year-old spent 18 months living with her partner before they married leading to a bitter family dispute in the High Court. Lawyers acting on behalf of the two sons and daughter of the 87-year-old grandmother successfully persuaded the judge to rectify their mother’s Will. Her grandmother, a staunch Catholic, had a ‘pious abhorrence’ of couples ‘living in sin’ and, after a bitter... 

The British government doesn’t plan on changing inheritance tax support for family businesses, despite a recent report from one of the country’s top universities recommending the removal of business property relief. At a meeting with UK lobby group the Institute for Family Business, exchequer secretary David Gauke said that when the Office of Tax Simplification reviewed the country’s tax... 

The Telegraph has reported this week that thousands more elderly people will be forced to pay to stay in care homes as a result of unannounced cuts in funding. Ministers are effectively reducing the level of savings above which pensioners must meet their own fees. A Whitehall document shows that the reduction has been imposed to “raise additional revenue” and will have an “impact” on older...