The new EPA system is upon us and we practitioners are adjusting to the new regime. I am currently attending ...

We know now that there is no s. 117 claim in the case of intestacy. We looked last week at ...

A s. 117 claim cannot arise in the case of intestacy. However there are some exceptions. In particular s. 67A(3), ...

We had looked previously at how to calculate next of kin. We concluded that the rule could be dangerously summarised ...

We previously looked at some of the closer relationships when it comes to next of kin and intestacy. In this ...

I recently spoke to the senior officer in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth about the implementation ...

There tends to be a degree of mystery among practitioners in dealing with estates where there is no obvious or ...

I was recently instructed by John (not his real name). He was the son of Mark and Nuala. Mark and ...

Last week we looked at the impact of the per-stirpes rule when it comes to children. Today we are looking ...

Just following on from our recap on the per stirpes rule, I just wanted to share a recent experience which ...

We all know the per stirpes rule, or think we know it in any event. We further know that it ...

In my last blog we looked at the importance of gathering information for prior gifts. Very often clients have been ...