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Archives for October 2019

Could Probate and Justice Be Blind in the U.S. Virgin Islands?

October 31, 2019 By Richard Farrell

Jeffrey Epstein amassed a personal fortune, some impressive friends, and more than a few lawsuits before he died. We wonder whether he filed his last will and testament in the Virgin Islands to spite the latter. That’s because there are only two judges in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Probate Valuation Tagged With: Bernie Madoff investor Jeffry Picower had to surrender $2.2 billion, Chris Spargo writing for Daily Mail, Colombian drug lord Julio Cesar Nasser, Jeffrey Epstein personal fortune, probate valuation of personal possessions

3 Popular Misconceptions About Hoarding You May Not Know

October 30, 2019 By Richard Farrell

Television programs and popular media are forever trotting out one-size-fits-all popular misconceptions about hoarding. If we had £100 for every ‘miracle cure’ someone suggested, we might be able to cruise the Mediterranean Sea from Malaga to Beirut. We decided to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Compulsive Hoarding Tagged With: adaptive hoarding, hoarder house clearance, hoarding brought on after a sudden loss, INHERITING THE POSSESSIONS OF A LOVED ONE, process the clutter

Resealing Probate What You Need to Know Before You Try

October 24, 2019 By Richard Farrell

A grant of probate allows an executor to wind up a specific estate in a particular country. Many of Britain’s dominions and colonies adopted the legal principles of ‘their old country’ as they evolved to full legal independence. Resealing makes it potentially easier … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Probate Valuation Tagged With: australian probate law, commonwealth countries and probate law, house contents valuation for probate, probate contents valuation, resealing probate

Straw Wars: Consumers Retaliate

October 24, 2019 By Robert McQueen

Ask any informed teenager where they would prefer to dine, and the likely answer would be, “anywhere that does not use plastic straws.” Future generations are far more in touch with environmental issues, and the impending synthetic catastrophes that are contriving to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recycling News Tagged With: committed environmentalists, global plastic straw baw, house clearance recycling, recycling news, “Make America Great Again…”

Stranger Things in Probate: The UK Chain of Representation

October 23, 2019 By Richard Farrell

The Administration of Estates Act of 1925 established the chain of representation among other matters affecting estates. It established a rule that “An executor of a sole or last surviving executor of a testator is the executor of that testator” too. However, it went … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Probate Valuation Tagged With: intestacy where there is no legal will, Probate and The UK Chain of Representation, probate contents valuation, probate valuation guide, sole executorship

Items to Avoid Sending to the Local Recycle Facility

October 23, 2019 By Robert McQueen

Adopting a recycling mind-set for those household items you want to dispose of responsibly is a great start. First-time subscribers to this practice should know that it does not always prove that straightforward. For example, the Big Mac brand admitted recently that its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recycling News Tagged With: house clearance recycling, McDonald's paper straws are also unsuitable for recycling, sun blockers and many other squeezable tubes are recycle nightmares, toothpaste, Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), ‘sticky notes’ difficult to recycle

Does Your Mailbox Think You Are a Hoarder: What Scientists Say

October 22, 2019 By Richard Farrell

We may never know why George Sweeten, Elizabeth Sillence, and Nick Neave embarked on their research at Northumbria University. It may have been the sight of their mailboxes maxing, or missing a critical message in the chaos. Whatever the case, they decided to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Compulsive Hoarding Tagged With: digital hoarding, hoarder house clearance, Northumbria University Researchers, paper hoarding, sweeten sillence and neave

Inheritance Provision for Family and Dependants Act of 1975 Judgement

October 21, 2019 By Richard Farrell

The Inheritance Provision for Family and Dependants Act (1975) allows UK courts to vary the distribution of the estate of a deceased person. Additional benefits may apply to any spouse, former spouse, child, child of the family, or dependant of that person. However … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Probate Valuation Tagged With: Alexa Payet, Family and Dependants Act of 1975, probate contents valuation, Tara’s Inheritance, The late Earl of Cowley left an estate worth £1.3 million

Six Steps Along the Road Towards a Tidier Home

October 21, 2019 By Richard Farrell

Hoarding is a lifestyle syndrome characterized by acquiring too many possessions and being unable to get rid of them for emotional reasons. In extreme cases the hoard takes over entire rooms to the extent exits are blocked, and visitors have difficulty moving through … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Compulsive Hoarding Tagged With: cant throw it away, compulsive hoarding, hoarded house clearance, keep it or throw it, tidier home

Probate Dilemma Who Actually Owns the Land?

October 13, 2019 By Richard Farrell

Picture this. An aged relative has died and left you their entire estate in their will. However, there’s not much to it except a large tract of land in the south of England. Developers would break a leg to get their hands on it. But there’s only one problem. The HM Land … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Probate Valuation Tagged With: HM land registry, How Land Ownership Is Recorded in England and Wales, probate guidance, unclaimed land, will and document search

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Dec 3, 2021
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