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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 [...]

Why we all need to think about end of life planning… I know none of us are actually PLANNING to die but… at some point it’s going to have to happen. So, you might as well make [...]

The two overarching reasons to write your Will is to 1, retain control of your assets and 2, protect your family. So why then have the majority of UK Adults not actually done it? In fact there [...]

Till retirement do us part…While divorce rates are generally falling across the board there is one age group that is bucking the trend. The Over 50’s. The baby boomers. Once the largest [...]

Help celebrate our TENTH anniversary at the 50+ Show 2016 is an exciting year for Future Legal Services.  Not only do we celebrate our 10th birthday this July – more on that later – [...]

Protect more than just your solely owned assets with a Will trust If you die without a Will your estate is distributed in accordance with Government defined rules of Intestacy. Only by writing a [...]

From the inclusion of obsolete trusts to inadvertently leaving the majority of your estate to charity, an out of date Will can cause as many problems as not having one at all. Out of date Will vs [...]

In the most part writing your Will is a piece of cake. You know what your assets are and you probably already know who you want to leave them to. Pop it all down in your Will and then when the [...]

Did someone say financial assessment? The introduction of means testing for care home fees has meant that many people in the UK are attempting to ‘off-load’ their assets into property trusts, in [...]

We recently wrote about the new rules for property inheritance that were announced during the summer budget. The new residence nil-rate band (RNRB) , will be phased in from 2017-2021 will reduce [...]