Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors' Legal Blog

I don’t seem to have time to manage my domestic life – simple tasks such as getting dry cleaning to the cleaners, booking my car for its MOT, or hunting out the best insurance deals are hard enough to do, and so the chances of me finding time to visit my lawyer to discuss Lasting Powers of... read more

My New Year's Resolution - Update my Will

By Amanda Jones in Private Client on Wednesday 30 December 2009 @ 10:42

How many New Year’s resolutions do you make?  More to the point, how quickly do you realise you have failed to keep any of them? I rarely make them – what’s the point, I know I’ll forget what I’m meant to be doing and break them.  What I try to do is simply decide to make a few... read more

No Will for Stephen Gately

By Edward Rees in Private Client on Friday 6 November 2009 @ 16:58

My recent Blog on the Rules of Intestacy has even more topical relevance today than it did on Tuesday, as we now learn the family of recently deceased boy band star, Stephen Gately, have finally conceded that no Will was left before his untimely death last month.Gately’s registered civil partner,... read more

The current rules surrounding dying without a will (or “intestate”) are complicated to say the least.  In fact it is a subject that’s attracting attendees to seminars we’re holding at our Ludlow office, where we’re endeavouring to make this difficult subject relatively easy to understand. So... read more

The family and private client team held a joint seminar at our Ludlow office on Wednesday 7 October.  These presentations were somewhat different from the norm with the private client team using a game of snakes and ladders to portray the complexities of not having a will and the family team... read more