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Family Law Blog: Marco fires warning for divorce lawyers
A warning for over-enthusiastic divorce lawyers this week. Please read slowly and carefully because it’s difficult to keep up with the twists and turns on this one. In what was billed as a test case, celebrity chef Marco Pierre-White has won a (very) public apology from his wife’s divorce lawyers. The couple are still married [...]
Family Law Blog: Pets, divorce and fostering
RSPCA launched a campaign last week called PetRetreat. It’s a fostering service for pets effectively. A network of fosterers can look after a person’s cats, dogs or whatever, so that they can escape domestic violence. Once they are settled in a new life, they can claim back their pet. The move came because some victims [...]
Development funding – is it still available?
In the pre-Credit Crunch days there were two essential ways to finance a development project, go with a bank who would usually lend up to 65% of the land value and up to 65% of the build costs drawn down in stages as the development progressed, or secondly go with a specialist lender who would [...]
Tax Planning Before 6 April 2010
As the end of the tax year looms it is important to check whether action should be taken to improve your tax position. The attached paper outlines some tax planning firstly for personal and family and then for business and property owners. Spring Clean Your Tax Planning Please contact me on 01584 819653 or by email here to [...]