Subjects:

Wills and Probate, Equity and Trusts

Contents:

Part I - Probate and the professional rules

1. Solicitors and instructions

2. Costs and charging

3. Client care

4. Estate administration and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000: a review

5. Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998

Part II - Probate, wills and the law

6. Liability for a client's fraud

7. Appointing guardians of children

8. Time for probate

9. Probate and benefits

10. Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 Claims

11. Contentious probate

12. Wills and best practice

13. The law on probate and succession: a review

Part III - Practical probate

14. Inheritance tax

15. Probate problems

16. Accounting and distribution

17. Probate practice checklists

Part IV - Profitable probate

18. Computing and technology issues

19. Managing private client business for profit

20. Marketing wills and probate

Appendices.

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