Heather Roberts

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Associate Irwin Mitchell Private Wealth

Heather is part of the Private Wealth team at Irwin Mitchell. She specialises in representing people in cases concerning wills, trust and estate disputes and aims to resolve every case quickly and sensitively with a successful conclusion.

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Nowadays, with advances in technology, many things have been digitised, resulting in much less important paperwork. This is not however the case for wills which are still physical documents. It is...

Lucy Blyth has failed in making a claim against the estate of tycoon Charles Caudle amounting to £8.6 million. They pair met in a whirlwind romance a year after his divorce in 2007 and Lucy quickly...

The 'Commorientes Rule' is (meaning 'simultaneous deaths') found in Section 184 of the Law of Property Act 1925. This rule states that if two or more people die in circumstances where it is not...

In a recent dispute between cohabitees, the court has upheld an order that a claim form could be served on a defendant out of the jurisdiction by way of a Whatsapp message.The case is that of Gray v...

Official figures released yesterday by the Office of National Statistics confirms that the number of people cohabiting in the UK has risen by 25.8% over the past decade, making it the fastest growing...

A recent family law case has highlighted a hole in the legal protection of Islamic couples whose ‘marriage’ may be considered a void marriage in English law, or may not be a marriage at all.The case...

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