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2 Nov - As the Coronavirus crisis continues, the Government has announced a revised extension to the furlough scheme. Here is a summary guide.

If you’re a residential landlord struggling with a tenant, the last few months will have been extremely frustrating. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many landlords have found themselves in the unenviable position of receiving break notices from their commercial property tenants. If you’re a commercial property landlord and your tenant chooses to exercise their break clause, you must follow the correct process.

If you can’t settle your finances after your divorce any other way, the last resort is going to Court to get a Financial Remedy Order. In this article, we’ll look in detail at what you can expect.

After a person has died leaving a Will, someone may think that they should receive an inheritance, or more inheritance than they are due to receive, from the deceased person’s estate. Here is our basic guide to challenges to a Will, known as contesting a Will.

When people start a business with their family members, optimism is the order of the day. You’re going to create something unique together, grow together and make money together. Nothing is going to go wrong, because ‘you’re family’.

Beware of this misplaced optimism. Things go wrong, even in family businesses.

When you make your Will, you don’t have to appoint only one Executor. On the other hand, if you find yourself on a team of Executors, it may add extra work to the Probate process.

Getting involved in the Probate process needn’t be a frightening prospect. Here is our basic guide to the ins and outs of Probate.

The Government wants to give as many businesses as possible a chance to emerge from the pandemic intact, then bounce back. It has also announced changes to rules around insolvency, effective now. In this article, we look at five changes this Act brings, as well as how they can help your business if you are feeling threatened by insolvency.

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For a variety of reasons, you may need to go to family court. In this article, we’ll look in detail at what you can expect.

It’s been a long process, but laws permitting divorce without blaming one party have finally passed through Parliament. Now no-fault divorce is finally on the horizon, let’s look at it in more detail. What is it? When is it happening? What are the benefits for you?

On 12 June 2020, HM Revenue and Customs published further updates to the official guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS). There are important changes that everyone needs to be aware of that will be introduced gradually from 1 July up to the end of October.

Anyone can (and should) have a Lasting Power of Attorney allowing you to grant legal power to someone else to make decisions about your financial situation, medical treatment and other affairs, if you lose the mental capacity to make them yourself. However, a standard LPA will not cover your business, if you have one.

We are helping our clients with probate applications, despite unprecedented delays at the Court’s Probate office. The Probate application process, which would typically take four to eight weeks, is currently taking around twelve plus weeks.

Pensions on divorce is an extremely complicated area, but it’s also an essential one. There are several ways that a Court will deal with your pension, and that of your former partner. Even if you can formalise your settlement outside of the courtroom, you are likely to go down one of these routes.

At the time of writing, the UK’s Coronavirus lockdown is beginning to ease, and many people are thinking about when and how they can return to work. However, things will be different. Employers will need to focus on several areas in order to create a safe working environment for their employees.

If you pay or receive child maintenance and the Coronavirus crisis has affected your income, you may be wondering what to do. The Government has laid down some new guidelines to help you.

On Friday 29 May Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced reforms to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.  There will be further updates to the Treasury Direction and the Employer's Guidance but, in the meantime, these are the core points that we are currently aware of.

Those waiting for employment tribunals will be thankful that hearings are returning now COVID-19 restrictions are easing.