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The world recently lost one of it’s greatest divas. Aretha Franklin died aged 76 from pancreatic cancer. During her extraordinary 60 year career the wonderfully talented Ms. Franklin [...]

With funeral costs on the rise is it now time to ‘opt out’ in favour of a more minimalist approach? It seems like nothing is good value for money these days. Even death. Not the [...]

Writing a Will can feel like a minefield of legal jargon, confusing forms and things you really don’t want to think about. But, it shouldn’t be that way. Over the next few weeks, we are going to [...]

Want to protect your family? Of course, you do… Us humans, we’re pretty much hardwired to protect the things we love. We have an inbuilt primal command to guard anyone and anything that is [...]

Does the state of common law marriage exist? Once a couple hits a magic number of years living in cohabitation bliss they reach a state of (near) nirvana called common-law marriage. A marriage by [...]

BREAKING: Government announces the launch of Lasting Power of Attorney fee refund scheme. Are you due a refund? Those that registered a Lasting Power of Attorney between April 2013 and March [...]

Elvis Presley is on tour. Again. Quite the achievement for someone who has been dead for a shade over 30 years. In the words of Dr. Frankenstein – ‘He’s ALIVE’!! Actually, [...]

Dying in debt is something that many of us worry about. But, should we be worried or should we throw caution to the wind and spend what we don’t have in our final years? I recently read an [...]

This week’s sad and untimely passing of Sean Hughes has seen many tributes published both online and in the press. Many have taken to social media to share their thoughts – both [...]

Will mistakes, as costly as having no Will at all? Writing your Will is incredibly important – we all know that. So important that around two-thirds of the UK population have yet to get around to [...]