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If you are incapacitated through old age, accident or illness and can’t make decisions when they need to be made, it’s important that you have someone you trust making decisions for you. A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) allows you to appoint up to four people, eg, solicitor, relatives, friends, to make decisions on your…
Heritage Will Writing is delighted to be supporting “A Dead Good Week at the Library”. As part of Dying Matters Awareness Week, the Central Library is putting on ‘A Dead Good Week at the Library’. All week, there will be books, support & info available, on many aspects of Death, Dying & Bereavement. Sat May…
Marriage arranging is not normally part of a will writer’s brief but Adam Johnson knows of four couples who tied the knot after chatting to him. The company director of Heritage Will Writing explained that unmarried partners are especially shocked when told how the rules work in the absence of a will. “I’m not sure…
It was billed as a ‘Dead Good Day Out’ by organisers at Oakhaven Hospice, Lymington, to help people address the often taboo subject of dying. A support worker referral from the open day about death led to Adam Johnson, from Heritage Will Writing, being invited to give a talk to staff working with patients in…
Adam Johnson was “honoured” and “delighted” to discover his expertise had been recognised by his peers. The company director of Heritage Will Writing has been made a Fellow of The Society of Will Writers (SWW). A spokesman for the non-profit making self-regulatory organisation said: “The SWW would like to congratulate Adam Johnson on being awarded…
Heritage Will Writing shares the same values as the Sunday league football team it sponsors, according to its company director. Adam Johnson, an “experienced campaigner” and a “hard tackling” centre back for Test Valley Spartans, stepped in when his side needed new kit. The 35-year-old, with a penchant for spectacular overhead kicks, decided to embrace…
Hampshire’s pensioners who assumed the Government’s much-trumpeted £72,000 cap on care was the maximum they would pay could be in for a shock. The elderly face digging deeper into their hard-earned savings now that full details have emerged of the changes due to be introduced in April, 2016. Accommodation and living costs are not included…
George Osborne has scrapped plans to introduce a single settlement nil-rate tax band on multiple life-time gifting trusts. The Chancellor had previously announced proposals to prevent numerous discretionary trusts being set up to avoid the £325,000 inheritance tax limit. Currently, individuals can apply the nil-rate band to each one. But in a move hailed in…
We have recently had an enquiry from a client in the Romsey area asking for advice on will writing, estate planning and how to set up a trust. A Discretionary Trust is one in which the beneficiaries do not have the legal right to demand payment of Trust income or capital (unlike beneficiaries of other types…
A Lasting Power of Attorney – If you haven’t got one and need one, it’s not too late to put one in place! Set yours up today for just £195 to ensure your family can manage your affairs if you lose your capacity to cope for yourself. Once you have a drawn up a Lasting Power of Attorney,…