Property: Changing intentions

University of Greenwich | Family Law Journal | May 2021 #203
Mark Pawlowski looks at how a beneficial joint tenancy can be severed after the parties purchase their family home in joint names Where the parties’ common intention manifests a clear desire to deviate from equality of shares, there is no reason, at least in principle, why severance should not operate so as to separate the …

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Succession planning: Ham-fisted

Muckle LLP | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | January/February 2020 #213
Luke Busbridge considers the lessons from a recent case on handling farming partnerships ‘It is essential to have a properly drafted partnership agreement that sets out what are and are not partnership assets, and defines the basis on which they are to be valued.’ It is a regrettable fact that among farming families, the death …

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