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Writing a will does not have to be costly or time consuming. A professionally drafted will can offer financial safety and security to your loved ones, ensuring that your wishes are carried out after your death. It can also save a great deal of expense – significantly minimising the possibility of future disputes and achieving considerable savings in Inheritance Tax.

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I have been married seven years, but the house belongs to my husband. He has four children. If he died, would the house automatically be mine? He hasn’t made a will. Would his children have any rights over the property?

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

My daughter is nearly eleven. She had an adverse reaction to an immunisation jab when she was a baby, and she was left with a bad scar. She is very conscious of this now. Is it too late to do anything about it at this stage?

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Area of Law: Medical Negligence, Personal Injury

I have recently been employed at a school as a classroom assistant. I have been asked to fill in a police check form, which asks if I have had a caution/ been bound over/ have a criminal record. Twelve years ago I was bound over for 12 months after a drunken night out. Will the police still have a record of this?

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Area of Law: Crime, Employment

My husband divorced his first wife about 30 years ago. He put a block on the sale of the house he left his wife in, and she died last year. The house has now been sold, and my husband is supposed to be getting some money from it, but we’ve heard nothing more. What is he entitled to?

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Area of Law: Divorce and Family

Two years ago my daughter married and she and her two children went to live in his house. He has now decided that married life is not for him, and wants to sell up. She has had conflicting advice about what she’s entitled to.

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Area of Law: Divorce and Family

My father is in his 80’s and has had a lady friend for about ten years. He went to live with her in her council house two years ago after she had a burglary. She is 92, has £30,000 in the bank and hasn’t made a will. What position would my father be in if anything were to happen to her? She has one nephew.

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Area of Law: Wills and Probate

I was sold what I thought was a month-by-month gym membership. I discussed it in detail with the gym, and was assured I could cancel my membership at any time on a month’s notice. However when I decided to pull out recently they told me I couldn’t cancel it until I had been a member for a year. Is there anything I can do?

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Area of Law: Consumer Law

If I transferred my house into my daughter’s name and another property I own into my son’s name, would this enable them to avoid inheritance tax?

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Area of Law: Property

The firm I worked for went out of business. I was given my redundancy forms and asked to hand the van keys to the accountants on the site. Over the weekend I got a ‘phone call from a firm which had taken over the contract asking me to come in to work on Monday. Will I still be entitled to redundancy pay?

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Area of Law: Employment

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