More families are setting up trusts to avoid paying inheritance tax, figures from HMRC suggest. Around 121,000 trusts were registered in the 2024-25 tax year, up from 115,000 the year before, taking ...

The widow and two daughters of LG’s former chairman sought to invalidate an inheritance agreement, claiming they were deceived into forfeiting their rightful inheritance. By Daisuke Wakabayashi and ...

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Martin Lewis has revealed two crucial marriage rules concerning inheritance tax. There is no inheritance tax on assets left between spouses, married or civil partners. This exemption applies ...

Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis has shared a fail-safe and fully legal method to pass on as much as £1million to your children without them having to pay any Inheritance Tax on it. Many ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate is a legal process that distributes a dead person’s assets and settles their ...

Business owners who move assets into trusts face ‘entry charges’ from April Charlotte Gifford is a senior money reporter covering tax and investments. She was named Investment Journalist of the Year ...

Every $100,000 inherited could generate $10,000 annually for life through smart investing, yet most Australians squander this life-changing opportunity on home upgrades, writes Ben Nash. When you ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’m divorcing in my late 60s and although I supported friends going through this when all our kids were young, ...

Eragon, Disney+‘s live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini‘s popular YA book series The Inheritance Cycle, has taken a major step in the development process, firming up its creative team and ...

The number of people using trusts to manage their money is rising, analysis shows. According to a Freedom of Information request by RBC Wealth Management, the Trust Registration Service received a ...