Actor Johnny Depp and actress Amber Heard divorced in July this year after a turbulent 15 months of marriage. The actors met on the set whilst filming The Rum Diaries in 2102, the same year he and his long-term partner singer/actress Vanessa Paradis split after 14 years together. Johnny Depp is worth an estimated £320…
Beatles producer Sir George Martin left an estate worth more than £1million but failed to leave anything to his eldest son Greg following a rift. Sir George, often described as ‘The Fifth Beatle’, died in March aged 90 and left a £1million estate in his will, with the majority of it being left to his…
Comedian David Walliams and his ex-wife, model Lara Stone have settled a High Court dispute over their £19million fortune. David Walliams was worth £16.3m and his wife £2.6m. The pair’s five-year marriage came to an end in September 2015. After private talks on the second day of the dispute at the High Court, Mr Walliams…
We successfully defended a claim in the High Court when a family member challenged the fact that no provision had been made for him a Will. Had the claim succeeded then the executor and sole beneficiary of the Will would have had to sell property in order to pay any award made by the Court.…
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini was granted a divorce in only 14 seconds after she blamed her second husband’s ‘unreasonable behaviour’. The former Girls Aloud star was handed a decree nisi ending her marriage to Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini at the Central Family Court in London. The couple, who did not appear in court, split at the end of 2015…
A couple in Market Weighton have spent tens of thousands of pounds in a row with neighbours over a hedge say they’re prepared to go to jail to prove it belongs to them. In 2012 when Steve and Sandra Marshall discovered a hole had been cut from the middle of the bushes. Their next-door neighbours…
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce has taken a new turn. It has been reported Angelina and her six children were questioned by the FBI about an incident in September 2016 in which Brad allegedly got drunk and physical with son Maddox, 15.
Producers of The Great British Bake Off reportedly engaged lawyers and threatened to sue the BBC. It has been reported that the BBC was involved in a dispute with Love Productions back in 2014 over a hairdressing competition called Hair, which originally been shown on BBC3. Produced by the BBC, Hair documented the quest to…
Our Oldham conveyancing solicitors were thrilled to receive a lovely surprise this week from a grateful client. Conveyancing exec Tracy Rostern was sent a box of conveyancing themed cupcakes from a recent customer! The unique and unexpected gift was from husband and wife Rabnawaz and Saima Inayat, who Tracy assisted with a conveyancing transaction. They left a…
We are taking part in Dr Kershaw’s Will Week from Monday 3rd to Sunday 9th October 2016. During the week we will prepare Wills for clients free of charge in lieu of a donation to the Hospice. Our usual fees are £95 for a single will and £175 for mirror wills. The idea is to…