Wilberforce Chambers | United Kingdom | 2 Feb 2024
The UK’s data protection legislation has been in the news recently with the introduction last Autumn of a US-UK data bridge facilitating the…
Frost Brown Todd LLP | USA | 14 Jul 2023
One year ago, the Florida Legislature amended Florida Statute Section 736.0505, which made the tax-saving instruments, known as Spousal Lifetime…
Loeb & Loeb LLP | USA | 23 Jun 2023
High net worth individuals frequently create irrevocable trusts during life to benefit their spouses, children, grandchildren or other family members…
Ogier | Cayman Islands | 21 Mar 2023
A key feature of a Cayman Islands STAR trust is that it separates the beneficial rights from the enforcement rights. In a non-STAR trust context, a…
Boyes Turner LLP | United Kingdom | 20 Mar 2023
It is not uncommon, particularly if a client is in poor health or advanced old age, for a solicitor to have failed to arrange for a proposed updated…
Wolters Kluwer Asia-Pacific | Australia | 23 Sep 2022
The Federal Court has upheld an assessment issued to the trustee of a trust after a beneficiary was deemed not to have been presently entitled to…
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Mourant | Guernsey | 6 Jul 2022
In our latest vlog Jeremy Wessels covers the importance for beneficiaries to seek administration information from a trustee. He also discusses the…
Afridi & Angell | Canada | 9 Dec 2021
The administration of an estate can be a complex and intimidating process at the best of times. If the estate in question has international…
Walkers | Jersey, United Kingdom | 12 Oct 2021
The Royal Court of Jersey has recently provided helpful guidance in relation to what it means to provide a beneficiary with a “benefit”. Click to…
BCLP | United Kingdom | 12 Oct 2021
In a recent English judgment, Vale SA and others v Steinmetz and others [2021] EWCA Civ 1987, which concerned the effect that an arbitral award had…