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Returning Expatriate Couple Pay the Price for Brexit

25th February, 2022 By

Brexit has for years been a constant topic of conversation, but some of its potentially serious consequences remain largely unknown outside specialist legal circles. That was certainly so in the case of a retired couple who were perturbed to receive a substantial tax demand after spending 30 years living in France. The couple, both British citizens, returned to the UK after he retired from his job with a multinational company. They moved into a flat in their daughter's house, settling back into British life. The sale of their home in...

Divorce – Fairly Dividing Marital Assets is Not a Blame Game

23rd February, 2022 By

The question of who is to blame for the breakdown of a marriage is often uppermost in divorcees' minds, but it is hardly ever relevant when it comes to fairly dividing up assets. The High Court made that point in the case of a husband who kept two families and for years conducted an affair under his wife's nose. During a marriage that lasted over 40 years and yielded three children, the husband achieved success in the retail and property sectors. For most of that time, he was enjoying a...

Update Your Will Today – This is What Can Happen If You Don't

17th February, 2022 By

Family relationships can become increasingly complex over time, particularly where marital breakdown intervenes, and that is why it is so important to keep your will up to date. As one case showed, a failure to take that sensible course can positively invite conflict between your loved ones after you are gone. The case concerned a man who made his will over seven years prior to his divorce. He died little more than a year after the marriage ended. He and his ex-wife were still living together in the former matrimonial...

Relationship Broken Down? Do You Understand the Legal Consequences?

14th February, 2022 By

When a relationship between partners who jointly own their home breaks down, one of them may move out leaving the other in sole occupation. That is a commonplace scenario but, as a High Court case showed, it can give rise to legal and financial issues that are far from straightforward to resolve. The case concerned a couple who together owned a house in which they were living when their relationship ended. The woman left the property but, for some years thereafter, the man remained in occupation. A judge eventually ordered...