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The exponential growth in property prices in London may be behind the large rise in the volume of contentious probate work.

The richest in society are twice as likely to benefit from an inheritance than the poorest, a new study by the Resolution Foundation reveals.

The owner of a brewery who has yet to hand over half of his aunt’s fortune to the charities she left it to in her will has been removed as the executor of her will, an article in the Daily Mail reports.

A cleaner accused of stealing more than £30,000 worth of goods from her employers claimed she was accused of being dishonest during a row about inheritance, the Shropshire Star reported this week.

A court of appeal judge has permitted media organisations to challenge the decision to ban those organisations from a court case in 2021 regarding the Duke of Edinburgh.

The late singer Prince’s estate has been valued at almost twice that of its original estimate, according to an article in the Guardian. 

The pandemic and concerns about the environment are likely to have a lasting impact on the arrangement of funerals, according to Suzanne Grahame, CEO of Golden Charter, in an article in the Funeral Service Times.

The Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim who died in November left an estate worth $75 million to his spouse, arts charities and friends, the Mail reports this month.

Authorities in Pennsylvania have claimed to solve one of the oldest cold case murders in American history thanks to DNA forensics, the United Press International reported this week.

Last year’s inheritance tax collection amounted to an extra 19 percent, according to a recent article in the International Adviser.