The ladies in Adams Harrison again supported this year’s Wear It Pink day.
Breast Cancer Now’s wear it pink day is one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, having raised over £33 million since launching in 2002. To see more about this charity please visit www.wearitpink.org
A total of £84 was raised across the three offices.
A small team from Adams Harrison, Lisa Thornhill, Solicitor at the Sawston office and Sue Lawton, attended this Business and Law Careers Fair at the Anglia Ruskin University.
We received a really nice “Thank You” from them.
Sincere thanks for contributing to the success of our Business & Law Careers Fair yesterday.
We had over 200 student visitors and the feedback was excellent. Students commented on how valuable an opportunity it was to meet employers and find out about future jobs in their sector, as well as receiving tips on how to make their application stand out.
I know how difficult it is to find time in your busy diary to support events like these and I appreciate your time and effort.
Emma Jennings | BA (Hons) PGDip
Employability & Careers Adviser
Congratulations to Lucy Potter on 15 years service at Adams Harrison – the partners bought a beautiful bouquet of flowers for Lucy.
There are a large number of people who have been married more than once and who have children from previous marriages or relationships.
It is important to understand how the law works if you die without leaving a Will in this situation. A marriage automatically revokes any existing Will unless that Will was made in contemplation of marriage.
If you remarry and do not remake a Will, when you die leaving this second spouse and children from a previous relationship and perhaps children from the current marriage; your estate will be distributed under the Intestacy Rules. Your new spouse will inherit the first £250,000 of your estate. The remaining value of your estate is then split into two. The new spouse will inherit the first share outright and the second share will pass to your children equally.
Depending on the value of your estate, your new spouse could potentially inherit the whole of your estate with nothing passing to your children.
You must review your circumstances and make a Will after re-marriage or in contemplation of that marriage.
You should also consider that if you and your new spouse make mirror image Wills, there is nothing to stop your spouse from changing their Will at any time after your death.
To protect your children you could consider including a trust in your Will. There are various types of trust; in particular, a life interest trust or right of residence. This allows for your new spouse to benefit from the trust assets during their lifetime, but after their death, the assets can pass to your children. This ring fences the assets in the trust from your spouse’s assets so that the trust assets cannot be given away under their Will.
The usual asset to place in such a trust is your share of your property. It is important that if you own the property jointly that you hold as tenants in common. This means that both owners have their own individual share in the property which would pass under the terms of their respective Wills rather than pass automatically by survivorship to the surviving spouse.
Our will writing team can provide guidance, explaining how to ensure that you provide for your loved ones after your death.
Sarah Bruce
Legal Executive Wills Trust & Probate
We have just received the following update from Emily Rush, Fundraiser at EACH;
I just wanted to let you know that we’ve just announced our total raised from the Bubble Rush across social media last night/this morning! (You can take a look here) We raised an amazing £11,920.25, with over 750 participants. We’re really pleased with how the event went, and have received lots of feedback from people keen to come back next year!
Thanks so much again for your support of the event, and kind regards,
Emily Rush
