Estate administration: For whom do you act?

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | May 2018 #196
A recent case shows the danger of conflict of interest when there is an apparent deathbed gift. Siân Hodgson reports ‘Each case will be considered on its facts but what is emphasised in this case is that where a donor has a fluctuating state of health, what is key is that imminent death from a …

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Donationes Mortis Causa: Where there’s no will, there’s a way

XXIV Old Buildings (Chambers of Alan Steinfeld QC) | Trusts and Estates Law & Tax Journal | September 2017 #189
Edward Cumming and Timothy Sherwin bring the doctrine of deathbed gifts up to date ‘It is in the very nature of a donatio mortis causa (DMC) that it is conditional on the donor’s eventual death, and that it is the donor’s death which perfects the gift.’ In this article, we consider donationes mortis causa (DMCs), …

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