“Treat your family like friends and your friends like family”… Sounds ideal, but when it comes to buying property, like anything else, money can often cause problems. First time buyers are still at a disadvantage and are often left...
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At Bennett Griffin, we are passionate about our local creative arts community and enjoy supporting several local initiatives. Worthing can be a truly marvellous place to live and work. Our Senior Partner, Ian Macara was kindly invited to the...
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Equality Newsflash! Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 After much campaigning by various individuals and groups, including a sizeable number of Resolution trained Family Lawyers, as of 2nd December 2019, opposite-sex...
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With the country’s housing crisis innovative options are emerging for increasing the supply of housing. At first glance acquiring a historic long lease of a property which restricts the property’s use to commercial use only, may appear to...
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Whilst training for Ride London this year, I decided to join a whole load of cycling groups on social media. Hurrah! I had found a rare slice of social media that was both encouraging and supportive as well as having a wealth of helpful information....
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A pension is often the largest capital asset after the equity in the family home within a marriage or civil partnership. Pensions can be complex and confusing at the best of times. It is therefore important to give pensions proper consideration when...
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You probably have a Driving Licence but do you have an effective Power of Attorney? BLOG #2 Powers of Attorney – are they as simple to apply for and use as a driving licence? In our first Blog of this 10 part series on “Planning for Later...
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For many parents, the summer break presents at least a slight sense of pressure as to keeping all bases covered, but majorly, hopefully, the pleasure of being able to spend meaningful time with their children. However, the six week break (sun or no...
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Leasehold houses have received a lot of negative attention in the news recently and we are exploring the reasons why. Traditionally, things seemed quite clear cut; houses were normally sold with freehold titles, flats with leasehold titles. So...
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With each Blog in this series our Team and I will: 1. Highlight a hopefully interesting and significant STATISTIC 2. Provide a little COMMENT from our professional and personal experiences as later life specialist Solicitors 3. Suggest an...
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