What is the Residence Nil Rate Band and how can you use it?

What is the Residence Nil Rate Band and how can you use it?

The Residence Nil Rate Band (RNRB) is designed to reduce inheritance tax for a large number of families. The RNRB works in addition to the personal nil rate band and is intended to make it less costly to pass property down through the family.

Conveyancing For Property Buyers in Blackpool

Conveyancing For Property Buyers in Blackpool

The conveyancing process can seem like a complex and confusing mystery to those who are new to it. Add to that the fact that, for most of us, a property purchase will be the most we will ever spend on one item and you have a fairly high pressure situation.

Lasting Powers of Attorney and how to use them

Lasting Powers of Attorney and how to use them

A Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) is something many of us in Blackpool need to consider as we get older. It is a way of giving someone you trust the legal authority to step in and make decisions on your behalf if and when you lack the capacity to do so.

Roles and responsibilities when dealing with an Estate

Roles and responsibilities when dealing with an Estate

Executors, Personal Representatives and Administrators are an essential part of the probate process and many of us will become one at some point in our lives. Given their importance what responsibilities do they have and what can they be liable for?

The Amicable Divorce – is it really possible?

The Amicable Divorce – is it really possible?

The Amicable Divorce is the stuff of legend – a split where two parties simply recognise that they are no longer meant to be together and so go their separate ways without emotional outbursts or recriminations.

Blackpool Law Firm Moves Up The Ranks

Blackpool Law Firm Moves Up The Ranks

Local Solicitors Blackhurst Budd are celebrating the latest Land Registry figures, which show they are within the top 140 firms nationally by volume of property purchases completed in 2015.