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More and more developers are now selling houses on a leasehold basis, which is more common place for flats, rather than on a freehold, which is traditional for houses. This is a growing concern and could end up costing the new build home owners dearly and even devalue their properties in the future. This is… Read more

We’ll be closing for our Office Party at 12.30 pm today and will be re-opening on Thursday 29th December at 9.00 am. We wish you all a Happy Christmas.

Staffordshire Living magazine have a new article on their website looking at the options available to couples when a relationship hits hard times. Where couples simply can’t stay together they highlight the benefits of using the collaborative law approach as an alternative to the more adversarial court proceedings. In the collaborative divorce process the solicitors… Read more

Nick Wynn-Williams the head of our Family Law Department in Wolverhampton is helping to pioneer a revolutionary approach which helps reduce the emotional and financial cost on couples and their children when families split. Instead of dealing through solicitors, the new approach, called collaborative law, involves couples working with their solicitors, all together in the same… Read more

The Government has expanded the official definition of domestic violence to include young people under 18. They hope that this change will help to increase awareness that young people in this age group do experience domestic violence and abuse as was high-lighted in the 2009/2010 British Crime Survey which found that 16-19 year-olds were the… Read more

Research by Resolution has shown that the overwhelming majority of people in the West Midlands believe that putting children’s interests first or avoiding conflict are the most important factors if going through divorce. More than four out of five people (83%) say that putting children’s interests first would be their most or second most important… Read more

The Law Commission is launching a consultation today as part of its review of the law relating to financial provision on divorce. In particular they’ll be looking to what extent one spouse should be required to meet the other’s financial needs, at what exactly is meant by needs and at what happens to property that… Read more

There is a common misconception that simply by leaving someone out of a Will or by providing for them by making a small bequest that this will be enough to stop them from contesting the Will. The plain fact is that there is no clause that you can include or provision which you can make… Read more

In order to make a valid Will you need “capacity.” In short this means you have to be able to understand what you are doing. The legal test as to whether a person has the capacity to make a Will is of the utmost importance to both beneficiaries and solicitors alike. The rules as to… Read more

In times of recession it’s fair to say that everyone is looking to save a few pence here, a few pounds there, in order to make finances a little easier on the pocket. However, when you make a Will is it really worth trying to save a pound or two when an invalid Will could… Read more

It is estimated that only 1 in 7 people have a Will, but increasingly in the modern family arrangement their importance is growing dramatically. Gone are the days when a husband and wife stayed married for life, had 2.4 children and relied on the Laws of Intestacy to provided that their estate passed on to… Read more

Welcome to the Wills and Estate Planning blog from Rees Page Solicitors. We are a Lexcel accredited law firm with offices in Wolverhampton and in Bilston. Our specialist solicitors are members of STEP – the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners – and have a reputation for providing quality advice which is both cost effective and friendly. In this blog… Read more