We are delighted to welcome Richard Miller as a partner/member of Grigor & Young LLP from 01 April 2021. With Janet Taylor’s retiral from the partnership with effect from 04 March 2021, that means the partners are now (in alphabetical order) Peter Brash, Ann Cruickshank, Richard Miller, Greg Robertson and Donna Skelly. Richard has worked …
Why might you include a Trust in your Will?
Trusts have a broad range of applications to modern families. Before we look at what a trust actually is, in broad terms, trusts may have practical relevance for you where you have a need: to protect vulnerable persons; to protect assets; to plan how the succession to your estate following your death can best be …
Reducing financial risk for personal injury claimants in Scotland
You know a bird squawks if it makes a loud, harsh noise. As in, ‘the squawking of the flock of geese overhead was deafening’. You might know that a quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quark is also a fresh dairy product a bit like yoghurt. But have …
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When can you speed up the registration of a Power of Attorney?
For a power of attorney to be capable of being operated by the attorney or attorneys on behalf of the adult who has granted the power of attorney, the power of attorney needs to be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) in Falkirk. The OPG issues a registered form of the power …
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When can someone challenge a Will in Scotland?
No one wants to be described as “Britain’s unluckiest Olympian”. Imagine being a world-record holder and triple world champion. Then imagine taking part in 2 consecutive Olympics (3 events each time), getting disqualified in 5 events and crashing out of the sixth. That’s what happened to Scottish short-track speed skater, Elise Christie, from Livingston over …
Ways to view making a Will depending on your stage in life
Yo-Yo Ma began learning cello at age 4 on a 1/16th-size instrument. (That’s the one at the left-hand-side in the image at the top of this post; the one at the far right is full-sized). He is probably the most revered cellist in the world. Born in Paris in 1955, his family moved to the …
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3 Objections to Powers of Attorney (and how to dispel them)
Can you tell me what I would have to do to set up power of attorney for my mother-in-law who is 79 and we have noticed that her memory is going? This is a common type of enquiry for solicitors. A person can only grant a Power of Attorney if they still have legal capacity. …
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A Resource Guide – COVID-19
How have you coped these last few weeks? We’ve had a lot of ups and downs. What a difference a couple of months make. We’ve had to embrace a whole new way of living almost overnight. We face a difficult and uncertain road ahead but there is hope and we will come out the other …