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To adapt to the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 in response to the global pandemic, the Ministry of Justice allowed video witnessing of wills to take place, Following consultation with its members, the Law Society of England and Wales found that only a small proportion of practitioners elected to use this method of witnessing a will.

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

Brits keep making the same mistakes when they write their Wills, that’s according to an expert in Staffordshire who covered the area in an article in the Staffordshire Live this week.

A new report reveals that the Scottish legacy market is vibrant and growing, with gifts in Wills up substantially and more charities turning to legacies as a way of funding what they do.

As is the case with most businesses, we at Finders International started the year in an uncertain state of mind thanks to the ongoing pandemic and the subsequent lockdown that lasted almost five months.

New rules came into force in September this year, meaning that all UK funeral directors must make their pricing information easily accessible for customers.

The Guardian newspaper has instigated legal action against the attorney general and the Queen’s private lawyers relating to a decision to ban journalists from a court hearing about the late Duke of Edinburgh’s Will.

The top tune for a funeral in 2021 is ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by Gerry & The Pacemakers, according to research by the Co-op Funeral Group based on approximately 100,000 funerals carried out by its funeral directors.

Ahead of the all-important climate summit in Glasgow next week, one funeral provider in Hampshire has taken delivery of the UK’s first fully electric Tesla-based hearse, according to the Hampshire Daily Echo.

Sometimes, the executors or trustees of estates find themselves administering that estate and are unable to distribute to one or more of the heirs because those persons can’t be found or won’t communicate with the trustee.