FL v MJL [2019] WTLR 1171

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Winter 2019 #177

The Applicant, who was the sole deputy for property and affairs of his brother MJL, made an application for

(i) ratification of small gifts previously made on behalf of MJL and

(ii) authority to make prospective substantial gifts on behalf of MJL.

Both he and three siblings each provided witness statements in support. MJL, who was in his sixties, was unmarried and had no children. He had suffered a cardiac arrest ten years previously and was in a persistent vegetative state. His estate was in excess of £17m (the larger proportion of which was comprised in an investme...

PCB v JMA
 & ors [2018] WTLR 961

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2018 #173

 

JMA, who was aged 72 years, suffered from early onset dementia and lived in a care home which she paid for privately. She no longer had the capacity to take decisions about making gifts and the medical evidence suggested that she would only live for a further 3 to 5 years. The applicant was a son by her first marriage; her daughter having died in January 2009. JMA inherited from her last husband, who died in January 2010, his entire estate which was derived from the sale of businesses which had realised approximately £11m. The applicant was appointed sole attorney under a L...

ADS v DSM & ors [2017] WTLR 819

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2017 #169

JKS and her late husband had two sons, ADS and DSM. She brought proceedings against the former in August 2012 seeking relief in respect of (a) a transfer by her late husband to ADS of his parents’ matrimonial home (at which she and her late husband continued to live) and (b) a transfer by her late husband to ADS and his wife of a piece of land adjoining other property. Serious allegations were made by JKS, including allegations of undue influence by ADS. On the death of JKS’s husband a significant sum of inheritance tax was due in respect of the reservation of benefit in the matrimonial ...