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The Inheritance Rights of IVF Children Explained:

Whilst the process of IVF is a widely-known fertility practice in the UK, the laws surrounding the procedure often go both unacknowledged and unconsidered, when making a Will.

Many people aren’t aware that the conception of a child through IVF actually has the potential to cause serious complications, especially when it comes to issues of inheritance, and establishing legal parenthood.

Find out more over on our blog on our website (link in bio).

The Claim Checker makes assessing all claims simple.

If you are unhappy with your share of inheritance, and want to learn whether you can challenge the current arrangements, this tool can help you understand the legal issues around these disputes, and give you an instant answer to whether anything can be done to resolve your situation.

Try it out for free over on our website!

IDR Mediate

IDR Law has extensive experience in representing clients within mediations, and now we have our very own CEDR Accredited Mediator Richard Thomas CTAPS.

What is domicile?

Domicile is a legal concept. A person will generally be domiciled in the country they consider their ‘roots’ are, or the country where they have their permanent home.

Find out more on our website at idrlaw.co.uk/contentious-probate-blog

As some of you may already know, we now offer a mediation service at IDR Law with Richard Thomas CTAPS.

IDR Law aims to be a centre of excellence in helping people resolve inheritance disputes. Mediation is uniquely suited to this area of law, as it allows families to resolve their disputes in private, with far greater flexibility and at a more proportionate cost.

If you want to book Richard Thomas through IDRM, please get in touch with us on 0330 175 9912.

Mediation enquiries can also be emailed directly to:
[email protected] or [email protected]

If you are unhappy with your share of inheritance, and want to learn whether you can challenge the current arrangements, this tool can help you understand the legal issues around these disputes, and give you an instant answer to whether anything can be done to resolve your situation.

Try it for yourself on our website now!

To round off Mental Health Awareness Week, we'd like to share some of the tips we give our clients when dealing with grief and how best to handle the situation.

We're overjoyed to announce that we have been nominated for two awards at the Estates Modern Law Magazine Private Client Awards 2024!

We have been shortlisted for "Law Firm of the Year" and "Best Use of Technology" for the development of our Claim Checker.

For this year's Mental Health Awareness Week, it was crucial for us to highlight the importance of caring for one's mental well-being during grief.

Going through a bereavement is already an extremely difficult, upsetting and stressful time, so adding a dispute on top can make things extremely overwhelming.

Over on the IDRN, we have published a blog where we discuss grief and the steps you can take to make things a little easier for yourself.

Register for the IDRN now to read the blog in full at idrn.idrlaw.co.uk

Hey guys, we have so many exciting things going on here at IDR Law that we can't wait to share with you...beginning with our free online Claim Checker service.

Stay tuned to find out more!

📢 Huge news for us at IDR, as we announce a £3.25 million growth capital investment from BGF – one of the largest and most experienced growth capital investors in the UK and Ireland.

A seriously exciting time for us, as the deal will enable us to invest in industry-leading talent and proprietary legal tech, as well as expanding our office network to the Midlands, North East and London.

MASSIVE achievement for our CEO Martin P Holdsworth. 🍾

Charles Layfield Bsc, Dip Legal Practice, Dip IoD will join the Board as Non-Executive Chair and a new management board comprises existing partners Richard Thomas CTAPS, Cara Hough and Eleanor Stenson CTAPS along with Head of Marketing, Lindsay Gibson and Richard Stewart as incoming new Head of Finance.

If you haven't spotted it yet, the full press release is here https://lnkd.in/dPMmufMB

BGF backs IDR Law for growth Harrogate-headquartered IDR Law, has announced a £3.25 million growth capital investment from BGF – growth capital investors in the UK and Ireland.

Amazing to be nominated for The Stray Ferret business awards. 🙌

The topic of sibling rivalry is one of those that never fails to pull interest. In the case of biological siblings, it’s quite unfathomable that individuals born from the same family, same mother, father can suddenly become so distant, estranged and in complete turmoil with each other. But it happens. And, it’s common.

Here we cover some of the most epic and high profile fall outs that have hit the press.

A little bit of friendly rivalry? The topic of sibling rivalry is one of those that never fails to pull interest. In the case of celebrity it is always interesting.

Martin Lewis MoneySavingExpert.com warns about the importance of making a Will in an article featured in YorkshireLive

https://lnkd.in/eUTNjDRU

Martin Holdsworth founder of IDR Law comments;

“The reluctance of the majority of people to actually put a will in place is not a new phenomenon. We receive well over a 100 calls a month from family members seeking advice on claims after death and many of these could have been avoided if succession planning had been organised by their parents or parents whilst still alive. Making a will is the single most important step to try and avoid emotional and financial upset once you’ve gone.

With 1 in 3 now relying on an inheritance to discharge debt or fund retirement, many families have no Plan B if they don’t inherit what they expect. Dying without a will (called intestacy) rarely ensures that the right people receive the right amounts and court applications become an inevitable result. We agree entirely with Martin’s sentiment about getting a will sorted. If it’s too late for that now, we are here to resolve the fallouts that will often follow.”

Free wills could save your loved ones stress, says Martin Lewis Research suggests that more than 50% of adults don't have a will

Thank you, Your Majesty.

Inheritance disputes are rising, with 1 in 4 now looking to bring a claim to fund retirement, pay of debts or simply help with living costs.

It is no surprise that claims flow in when inheritance does not land as you expected.

Does this sound like something you or your family are experiencing? talk to us.

https://idrlaw.co.uk/

The only firm in the country whose sole focus is contentious probate, IDR Law continue to grow to meet the ever-increasing demand for excellent service in this niche sector of Law. We’re opening an office in Bristol on 8th December.

You may have seen the article we published last week, introducing our Manchester team; this week we’re very happy to introduce even more new members of IDR Law, who will be working from our Bristol office.

Find out more:

https://idrlaw.co.uk/were-not-stopping-at-manchester-meet-our-bristol-team/

Introducing more brilliant team members at IDR Law!

IDR Law's top priority is continuing to offer a first-class service to all our clients and our referrers. To meet an ever-increasing demand, we’ve taken on more team members and we’re opening new offices across the country.

We’re delighted to introduce new members who will be working out of our new Manchester office. Have a read of our Q & A article to find out why they're joining IDR Law.

https://idrlaw.co.uk/we-cant-stop-growing-meet-our-manchester-team/

Hear from one of our clients...

"A family member wasn’t happy with the will. When it became apparent that they were putting a caveat on probate to stop it going through, the Kings Court Trust mentioned IDR Law as a firm that might be able to help us. We like to do our research and, out of all the firms we looked at to help us, we liked that IDR Law’s whole expertise is around contentious probate; that they don’t work in any other area of law."

Read full Q and A with our client here:

https://idrlaw.co.uk/hear-from-one-of-our-clients/

We’re thrilled to announce that, despite only being founded in 2017, IDR has secured amazing ranking in the two industry legal guides.

IDR Law is an innovative practice which specialises in resolving inheritance disputes. It’s all we do and, because it’s all we do, we are entirely focused on this niche sector of Law. We bring well over 100 years of combined experience which enables us to offer the highest level of support, expertise and advice to clients and referrers.

We work as a team within the firm, and we work as a team within the legal sector, offering support, guidance and training to other law firms and organisations as well as a first-class service to our clients.

We’re delighted that IDR has once again been ranked as a leading firm in the Legal 500. We’re also really excited to share the news that IDR Law’s founder and director, Martin Holdsworth, has been ranked as a member of the Legal 500 Hall of Fame – a top spot open only to those lawyers who have been ranked for six consecutive years as a leader in their field, and a rank held for life. Congratulations Martin from all of us at IDR Law!

It’s not just the Legal 500 who recognise IDR Law are at the top of our field. We’ve also been ranked in Band 1 of Chambers and partners – we’re in the top tier of legal firms in the whole of Yorkshire and the North East. Martin Holdsworth has been ranked as a band 1 individual (he’s keeping his top spot) and Richard Thomas is now ranked as an Associate to watch. Congratulations Richard!



https://idrlaw.co.uk/idr-law-top-ranking-in-industry-guides/

IDR Law’s Manchester office now fully operational! 🎉

The IDR Law team got together at our new office in Manchester last week, and we’re thrilled to confirm the office is now fully operational!

New team members Kirsty McNulty (Associate) and Georgina Coates (Solicitor) from Forbes and Myerson respectfully will work out of the Manchester Hub office ­ ­– at Spaces, 125 Deansgate – and will be joined by more team members soon. It’s an exciting time to be at IDR Law and it’s only going to get better!

Georgina (GC), who started with IDR Law last Monday and Kirsty (KM), who joins us on 11th October, share some of their background, reasons for joining IDR and why they’re looking forward to the future with IDR Law...

https://idrlaw.co.uk/idr-laws-manchester-office-now-fully-operational/

IDR Law adds another Partner, Associate, Solicitor and Paralegal

Having just closed out our 4th consecutive year of 40% growth on all KPIs, we are thrilled to announce that FOUR more talented legal minds have joined us, or will be joining us very soon, at IDR Law, a specialist contentious probate firm.

The IDR Law blend of Familyflex working, national home/office locations, pure specialism and a network of national referrers is attracting the attention and applications from some serious talent all over the country.

The increased profits have been reinvested back into IDR Law to expand on the success achieved so far – new offices in Manchester and Bristol are opening in October and November respectively with further offices to open later in the year. More about those offices later, now is the time to introduce you to the first 4 new team members:

Daniela Parravano joined us as a Paralegal this month, Georgina Coates has just joined us as a Solicitor, Kirsty McNulty joins us next month as an Associate from Forbes and Cara Hough joins IDR Law in January 2022, from Porter Dodson, as our second Partner.

Read more about our fantastic new team members and how you could be part of the IDR Law team...

https://idrlaw.co.uk/idr-law-adds-another-partner-associate-solicitor-and-paralegal/

Talking about death is important

At IDR Law we believe in communication, in talking about death before it happens, in planning for death to reduce the emotional (and financial) cost that can come from losing someone you love.

We’ve recently had the pleasure of speaking to Sarah Jones, Director of Full Circle Funerals, who kindly shared her story with us in the Q and A below. It was clear from the offset that Sarah is a person who cares deeply for others and does everything she can to support individuals and families as well as working to improve the way funeral care is delivered for society as a whole.

https://idrlaw.co.uk/talking-about-death-is-important/

IDR Law sets up campaign to support victims of Universal Wealth Preservation Trust Scandal

Universal Wealth was an unregulated company which targeted a pool of individuals within the age bracket of 60-80, convincing them to put their properties and savings into Universal Wealth Trusts to protect their estates from future care homes fees and inheritance tax.

Universal Wealth ceased operations in 2018 leaving many clients unable to access their money and with difficulties in selling their homes.

The company director, Steve Long, was sent to prison at the end of 2018.

IDR Law have been working with former clients of Universal Wealth to remove their properties from the trusts.

IDR Law client comments: "The impact on us was devastating, such charges would rapidly eat into our life savings and leave us nothing to pass on to our son who would be forced to sell the family home to cover these debts… Fortunately, our solicitor put us in touch with IDR Law, who specialise in such problems, and, with their help, we finally managed to extricate ourselves from this invidious position.”

Read more:

https://idrlaw.co.uk/idr-law-continues-to-support-victims-of-universal-wealth-preservation-trust-scandal/

IDR Law have hit the TOP SPOT!! 🥇

We're thrilled to announce that IDR Law are taking a top spot – tier 1 – in the Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2021 for Private Wealth Disputes.

Congratulations to the whole team!

We’re also proud to share that Richard Thomas, Senior Associate at IDR Law, has been listed in the guide as an ‘Associate to watch’ Well done Richard from all of us at IDR Law!

Martin Holdsworth, our founder and director, has kept Band 1 ranking individual for high net worth 2021.

Here are a few things that the Chambers and Partners research team found out about Martin...

Martin Holdsworth is “exceptional – he has a knack of getting to the crux of the matter and is a realist and excellent at managing difficult situations,” says a fellow solicitor. “He is an expert in his field and has a stellar reputation,” states another interviewee, adding: “He leads by example and is approachable, decisive, innovative, helpful, knowledgeable, practical and savvy. He is an excellent and trusted adviser.”’

Read more at:

https://idrlaw.co.uk/idr-law-top-ranked-in-chamber-and-partners-uk-guide-2021/

Do you know what would happen to your children if you died today?

Food for thought...

Many of us don’t realise that our children, if a legal guardian is not identified in a will, would be taken into the care of social services upon our death – they wouldn’t automatically be cared for by a loving friend or relative.

Martin Holdsworth, founder and director of IDR Law, came up with the idea of FRisk (Family Risk): a quick, simple and FREE way of all of us being able to assess the risks to our family should we have died yesterday, with links to carefully chosen, vetted, regulated companies who can provide you with the solutions to put the right planning in place.

https://idrlaw.co.uk/do-you-know-what-would-happen-to-your-children-if-you-died-today/