Getting the legals right when you help your children out financially

Parents who want to help their children out financially – for example, by helping them buy a home – should make sure they get the legals right, or risk things going wrong later If you’re helping your child out financially it’s crucial to be clear whether it’s a gift, so you don’t expect the money …

Agreeing to be someone’s executor – what it means

If someone dies and they have named you in their Will as their executor, your job is to identify and collect in everything they owned when they died, pay off their debts and liabilities and distribute what’s left to the beneficiaries under the Will. Lawyers call this ‘administering the estate’. Usually, a Will names more …