Insights: Succession planning including wills and powers of attorney

You may well be truly fed up hearing about Brexit and assume, as there's little about it in the headlines at present, that there aren't any important changes being made.

Last week Aretha Franklin came up in a meeting I was having with a couple about making their Wills. I know what you're thinking - I had perhaps gone drastically off-piste?

In a recent case before the High Court, the Applicant, Ms Julie Colbourne, has been granted permission to bring a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 (the Inheritance Act), despite being out of time due to an error made by her solicitors.