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Couchman Hanson Solicitors joins the Community Matters Partnership Project

Employment tribunals are still running during the ongoing lockdown provisions, while case work and hearings are still progressing, albeit more slowly. In this article, we’ll run through the most critical points.

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.

UPDATE 20 AUGUST 2020

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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.

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.