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It’s National Empty Homes Week (Monday 28 February to Sunday 6 March 2022) and we want your help tackling the problem of houses and flats left lying derelict and unoccupied while the housing crisis in the UK and Ireland continues unabated.

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has struck off a woman who helped arrange for a vulnerable woman to a property at a cost well below the market value, the Law Gazette reports.

The sister of the late Tupac Shakur, the American rapper and actor, is suing the executor of her mother’s estate as she claims he has embezzled millions, according to the NME.

The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that all users of the probate service are to pay a higher, flat fee, the Law Gazette reports.

A recent investigation carried out by the BBC Radio 4 consumer programme You and Yours has revealed that taking control of people’s financial affairs is a process “wide open” to fraud, the Guardian reports.

Finders International is delighted to announce that its charity of the year for 2022 is Keep Britain Tidy.

A new report has highlighted that more millennials than ever in the US have written a will because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to recent research Finders International carried out with solicitors on LinkedIn, 50 percent of respondents say their biggest struggle with the estate administration process is finding missing beneficiaries, while 38 percent claim it’s the gathering of the deceased’s assets that gives them the biggest headache and 13 percent find it difficult to obtain the necessary certificates.

Many people choose to gift parts of their estate to their intended heirs before they die, but how do you work out how much inheritance tax might be use on such gifts? Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) recently issued the following guidance.

Two sisters are locked in a bitter dispute with their father over an inheritance from their grandmother, according to a recent story in LadBible.