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Volume 11 Issue 4
Features
Legal issues abroad: Spain
Nowadays practitioners are more likely to be faced with an estate where the deceased owned property in other countries.
Part 18: Protecting the interests of older people
In this final part of the ECA course, David Coldrick completes his examination of capital disregards, including those related to personal injuries, life interests and foreign earnings.
Legal issues abroad: France
With an increasing number of older clients choosing to buy, or already owning properties abroad, ECA looks at some key legal/tax issues facing clients buying property in our nearest neighbour – France.
Care-home fees and the income-related means-test
Alan Robinson, solicitor at Legal & Welfare Rights Training and Alan Robinson Solicitors, provides a valuable update on the income-related means-test in respect to charges for accommodation.
Inheritance: Avoiding benefit reductions
More people than you may think are in receipt of means-tested benefits. The main means-tested benefits are income support, pension credit guarantee credit, council tax benefit and housing benefit.
Aids and adaptations: What price older people?
Clive Yeadon, who manages the community care and education law team at Ridley & Hall Solicitors, examines the management and availability of equipment that enables individuals to live more safely in their homes.
Editor's foreword
Trust practitioners were at peace with the Treasury. Many were even acting as unpaid tax collectors from deceased estates, oblivious to its intentions. Furthermore, at the solicitation of HMRC, their professional bodies were still in conversation with the Treasury, looking forward to the maintenance of that peace...
Regulars
In search of beneficiaries…
Many clients complain that they are neglected or forgotten by their children and grandchildren. A recent case of ours unearths a rather extreme version of this cliché.
Opinion: Hospitals and older care
Harvey Cole, ECA’s economic and development consultant considers hospital efficiency, choice, competition, staffing and other concerns, where he feels the elderly may be the biggest losers.
