Will Drafting
Will Drafting
Lapse and married beneficiaries
Last week I took the opportunity to suggest that it is always worthwhile to remind those drafting wills to consider the issue of gift over…
Will Drafting
Gift over
When will drafting one naturally looks at the wishes of the testator and who are the intended beneficiaries. However all too often practitioners fail to…
Will Drafting
Residuary Clauses – Partial Intestacy
We all know the importance of having a residuary clause, however, it is not something that clients focus on and we as practitioners must provide…
International, Probate, Will Drafting
Conflicting Irish and Foreign Wills
Judge Butler in a recent case has ruled that a revocation clause in a UK will revokes an Irish will. The case is a timely…
Probate, Will Drafting
Children born outside marriage and intestacy
In intestacy cases there are certain key rules that we all keep in mind. For example, we know that the share of a pre-deceased child…
Probate, Will Drafting
Obligation of personal representative to ex-spouse of deceased
There are many obligations of personal representatives in the context of an estate, but one particular explicit obligation is set out, not in the Succession…
Will Drafting
Gifts to adopted children by natural parents
I’m really dating myself here. But was your early childhood full of M*A*S*H*, Basil Brush and the Little House on the Prairie? Well maybe it…
Probate, Will Drafting
Impact of adoption on s. 117 claims
I have been looking at various elements of section 117 claims over the last number of emails. Just a quick one on this. If a…
Will Drafting
Civil partners and s. 117 claims
You might recall last week that I mentioned that s. 117 applications cannot succeed where a spouse inherits, because spousal bequests are exempt from challenge…
Will Drafting
Restriction on s.117 claims
Just a quick note. You will often have to advise a testator that they owe a moral duty to their children. So how does that…
