How easy is it to challenge a Will?

The national press carries the somewhat bizarre tale of a woman in her twenties who married a retired school lollipop man, aged 76, who claimed that she’d found his most recent Will (leaving the vast bulk of his £600,000 estate to her rather than his daughter by a previous marriage) in an empty Doritos packet in the attic of the …

Costs in Probate Proceedings

In Bleak House Dickens takes a satirical swipe at the court system. Jarndyce v Jarndyce is a probate action which is not understood by the litigants and which devours the whole estate in costs. Jarndyce is not dissimilar to a number of recent probate cases. The legal costs position in probate claims is often misunderstood. This article looks at 1. …