Claims by adult child beneficiaries: Is there any hope after Miles v Shearer?

RWK Goodman | March 2022 #231
Amanda Noyce reviews the latest cases under the 1975 Act and summarises the lessons on funding such claims With regard to adult able-bodied children, there is a need to ‘prove something more’ than just the qualifying relationship. ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’ is a great self-motivational message – until there’s an inheritance involved. …

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Adult children: End of the road

Dawson Cornwell | March 2022 #211
Anna Shadbolt and Philippa Davies reflect on the limits of financial provision for adult children The decision in Siddiqui could be viewed as a simple restatement of the boundaries of the current law, without going any further, but it could also constitute a useful clarification of the existing law in the event of claims by …

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Family provision: A new approach to an old dilemma? 

Queen’s University Belfast | March 2021 #221
Heather Conway and Sheena Grattan look at family provision, adult children and property transfers In our opinion, it would be wrong to read Noble as signalling a fundamentally different approach, given that Noble was dealing with a very different set of factual circumstances Noble v Morrison [2020] is the first reported family provision case in …

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Adult children: No way through

Rayden Solicitors | March 2021 #201
Hannah Viet considers an unusual case involving a claim by an adult child against his parents and the extensive arguments submitted in support of that claim There is no jurisdiction for a child to bring a claim for financial relief against a party to a subsisting marriage. In FS v RS [2020], Sir James Munby …

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