King v King [2024] WTLR 177
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2024 #194Eric Stanley King (deceased), a divorcee, died intestate on 15 April 2021. Rule 22 of the Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987 (NCPR 1987) set out the order of priority for a grant of letters of administration on an intestacy; in this case, the persons entitled were the appellant and respondent (being the children of the deceased) and the three children of a third child who had predeceased the deceased. Where more than one person of the same degree was entitled to a grant, the court had a discretion as to which of them it should appoint as administrator. In this ...
Borrows v HM Coroner for Preston [2018] WTLR 365
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Summer 2018 #172.This case concerned the burial arrangements of Liam McManus (Liam), who took his life aged just 15. Liam had a difficult upbringing. His parents were heroin addicts and so he was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Liverpool until he entered foster care aged 5. Two years later he moved in with the claimant, Mr Burrows, (who was Liam’s paternal uncle) and his family in St Helens and a full residence order was made in favour of the claimant and his wife. Mr and Mrs Burrows were described as his psychological parents.
In the year before he died, Liam made contact with h...