Emma Weir
Partner
Private Client
Emma represents a wide spectrum of clients, including high net worth individuals, with a particular focus on elderly client affairs. She acts as a Deputy and Attorney for a number of clients to manage their property and financial affairs.
Emma qualified as a Solicitor in September 2003.
Work highlights
COMPLEX ESTATE
Acting on a highly complex estate of a well-known illustrator, including royalty matters, ongoing charitable trusts and complex tax matters.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Acting for an individual with no living family members on his property and financial affairs, including registering the Power of Attorney, assisting with his care requirements, managing his finances and making decisions regarding his investments in his best interests.
UNADMINISTERED ASSET
Acting for a genealogist on the legal documents required for an unadministered asset dating back to 1966, including applications for a specialist Grant of Probate, tracing all the beneficiaries on the family tree, acquiring payment of the asset, and arranging payment to all the beneficiaries which numbered some 50 individuals.
Services
Recent articles
Media spotlight
11/03/2024
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The once lawful practice of remotely witnessing Wills is to be removed due to a surge in contentious inheritance disputes
20/02/2024
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Three common scenarios that require registration with the Trust Registration Service (TRS) established by HMRC that you may have missed.
08/02/2024
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Gifts to any charity in the EU or European Economic Area no longer qualify for a relief commonly granted to UK charities
29/01/2024