We are delighted to announce that Alice Vage, a Property Executive with the firm, has now begun her training contract with Penderlaw Solicitors. Alice was born and grew up in Cornwall before moving to Wales where she studied Law at Swansea University graduating with a 2:1 honours degree. Following this, she studied for her LPC…
What is an LPA? A Lasting Powers of Attorney document (LPA) is a legal document allowing someone to make decisions for you, or act on your behalf, should you become unable to do so yourself. Having an LPA is especially important if you own a business. How do I go about choosing an attorney? When…
The term ‘Grandparent Will’ is becoming more widely used these days but how do you go about protecting your grandchildren’s inheritance with a grandparent Will exactly? What is it and what are the advantages of it? Lucy Duffin, from Penderlaw Solicitors explains… A Grandparent Will is what we would term a Flexible Will. Many couples…
Diego Maradona’s turbulent and colourful private life often hit the headlines during his lifetime and is doing so again following his death. Dying without a Will, despite his fame and fortune, and with numerous paternity claims and a series of tangled relationships, it is likely that there will be a lengthy and expensive legal battle…
The death of our parents is not something any of us want to think about, let alone talk about. But, as Leah Chenoweth from Penderlaw’s Wills, Trusts and Probate department explains, facing up to these difficult conversations and beginning some Estate Planning with your parents now is likely to save you a lot of heartache…
Some thoughts on your digital life and passing on your digital memories, amongst other things… Winter used to be a time when I would sit by the fire and spend time making up photo albums from the year gone by. A cosy heart-warming thing to do on a cold evening, looking though memories of summer…
A sad story in the news this week got me thinking. Poor Kate Garraway, the well-known TV presenter whose husband is still in hospital fighting the lasting effects of coronavirus, is apparently struggling to manage their personal financial affairs because her husband did not have a Power of Attorney. At 53, this is not at…
Being asked to be someone’s Executor is a great compliment as it means they trust you implicitly to sort out their affairs. However, it also brings with it a great deal of responsibility, and not to put to fine a point on it, a reasonable amount of hard work too. Lucy Wilton from Penderlaw’s Wills,…
As with DIY wills, some people see solicitors’ fees for probate as unnecessary expenditure. However, there are some real benefits in instructing a solicitor. Adopting the DIY approach to save money can turn out to be rather short-sighted. Leah Chenoweth from Penderlaw’s Wills, Trusts and Probate team outlines the key benefits of instructing a solicitor…
More and more couples are choosing to live together before getting married or are choosing not to get married at all. More than half of children born in the UK in 2017 were born to unmarried parents. The increase in the divorce rate as a result of the pandemic has been much publicised, but what…
