Family Business & Succession Disputes
Questions concerning mental capacity can have profound implications for personal welfare, financial affairs and long-term wealth planning. We advise families, attorneys, deputies, trustees and beneficiaries on sensitive Court of Protection matters, helping to protect vulnerable individuals while safeguarding their interests, assets and future wellbeing. Including:
- Challenges to the validity of Lasting Powers of Attorney
- Deputyship applications and disputes
- Mental capacity assessments and contested capacity issues
- Statutory wills and gifting applications
- Financial abuse and safeguarding concerns
- Disputes involving attorneys, deputies and family members
- Property and financial affairs disputes
- Health and welfare applications before the Court of Protection
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Our Core Services
- WILL DISPUTES
- INHERITANCE DISPUTES
- TRUSTEE & BENEFICIARY DISPUTES
- BREACH OF TRUST CLAIMS
- TRUST LITIGATION
- TRUSTS & DIVORCE
- EXECUTOR & ESTATE DISPUTES
- REMOVAL OF TRUSTEES & EXECUTORS
- INTERNATIONAL TRUST & ESTATE DISPUTES
- COURT OF PROTECTION & CAPACITY DISPUTES
- FAMILY BUSINESS & SUCCESSION DISPUTES
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Our team assists a varied client base facing a wide range of challenges in the context of inheritance disputes, trust issues and other multi-jurisdictional matters that can arise in relation to the ownership of assets.
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Why Choose Payne Hicks Beach?
Our partners are recognised by all leading directories in the UK including Chambers UK, Legal 500 UK and Spears 500 for specialist expertise, strategic advice, and handling of high-complexity cases.
The team advises on a variety of issues including applications for the removal of trustees and protectors, cross-border breaches of trust or fiduciary duty by trustees or protectors and applications concerning long standing family trusts. The team also handles matters in the Court of Protection and issues of professional negligence in the context of the private wealth sphere.
In disputes of this nature, resolving the conflict with minimum time and expense is essential, as is having the relevant expertise in this complicated area of the law. We always explore ways to resolve problems and examine all alternative strategies before resorting to litigation.
We understand that privacy and discretion are of critical importance to our clients. We are committed to ensuring your privacy are protected throughout the process.
"One of the truly up-and-coming departments in this field...they're really establishing themselves as a team with the private client background. It's a very, very strong outfit."
ARTICLES
27 September 2022
As part of our fortnightly Private Wealth Planning series Private Client partner Frederick Bjørn looks at roles, responsibili…
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Probate Special Part 2: The Importance of having a Will and keeping it up to date
14 October 2022
As part of our fortnightly Private Wealth Planning series Private Client partner Frederick Bjørn and associate Verity Sherwin…
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Probate Special Part 3: Traps and pitfalls in probate
31 October 2022
In Part 1 of our Probate Special we covered the formalities that need to be followed once it has been established that a Gran…
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