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Inheritance: Dual responsibilities
Catherine Paget sets out the courts’ approach to competing claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 ‘Where a sum of money belonging to one person is paid into a joint bank account there is a presumption that the owner of the money does not intend to make a gift of it …
Cases Referenced
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- Bahouse & anor v Negus [2008] EWCA Civ 1002
- Hope & anor v Knight [2010] EWHC 3443 (Ch); [2011] WTLR 583
- Negus v Bahouse [2007] EWHC 2628 (Ch); [2008] WTLR 97
- Re Northall Deceased [2010] EWHC 1448 (Ch)