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CARE HOME FEES NEWS

 

• Older people needing long-term care warned not to place hope on government's promise to limit bills (August 2012)
  
   
• My mother had to sell her home to pay for care. It stinks that we squander so much on foreign aid and won't help thousands like her (July 2012)

 

• 260,000 elderly will be paying for care by 2030: Warning that numbers affected will double in 20 years (May 2012)

 

• Downsize your home to pay for old-age care, says the man brought in to ease burden on middle classes (June, 2011)

 

• Care home costs hit 80,000 more as those being denied council-funded places soar (March, 2011)

 

 

• 20,000 a year sell homes to fund care: New figures reveal growing toll of families struggling to pay soaring fees (November, 2010)

 

• 3,000 victims of home snatchers: Record numbers of elderly are forced to sell their homes to pay for care (December, 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILLS NEWS

 

 

• Adopted children of turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews deny his French lover luxury £12m Mediterranean villa (September 2012)

 

• Dad's Army creator David Croft has left just £226,000 in his will despite highly successful career (September 2012)

 

• 'Wicked' son who stole £150,000 from his dead father’s will to fund luxury life in Mediterranean is jailed (July 2012)

 

• The $1bn will behind Jacko family war and how the star's fortunes have created rivalry between brothers, sisters, children, mother and lawyers (July 2012)

 

• Romantic history: Prolific author of 200 Mill &Boon novels leaves £1milllion (July 2012)
   
• Michael Jackson's showbiz siblings launch claim on singer's fortune as they push to overturn 'fake' will (July 2012)
• Prodigal son wins £3m in battle over farmer’s will: Sister loses appeal to her 'lazy' brother (June 2012)
• Prince William expected to inherit £10million from Diana's estate as he turns 30 today  (June 2012)
• Wife who found football ace Gary Speed dead is left £1m in his will (June 2012)
• Woman who claims she's Jimmy Savile's secret love child in DNA bid to claim his £7.8m fortune (June 2012)

 

• Lawyer plundered his ailing aunts' £400,000 estate by changing their wills and 'decimating' their bank accounts (May 2012)
• Farmer leaves fortune to a young woman "he took a shine to" after disinheriting the son who discarded the family name (May 2012)

 

• Nature lover leaves wildlife haven to RSPCA – who sell it to be bulldozed and built on (April 2012)
   
• Lucian Freud leaves record £96m in will: Famed portrait painter’s estate is largest ever bequeathed by a British artist (April 2012)

 

• Six in ten adults have not made a will, says Standard Life (April, 2012)

 

• Amy Winehouse leaves her £3million fortune to parents (March, 2012)

 

• The bitter final words of Malcolm McLaren: How punk king cut son out of will (and left everything to his girlfriend instead) (April, 2012)

 

 

• Baker Street star Gerry Rafferty's fiancée in High Court battle over £1.2m will (January, 2012)

 

 

• Adopted son loses inheritance after couple's NATURAL sons - who got nothing - find parents' wills were wrongly signed (October, 2011)

 

 

• Fashion designer Alexander McQueen left £50,000 to pet dogs (July, 2011)

 

 

• Fury of family after Colchester grandmother cuts them out of her will... and leaves £150k fortune to workman (June, 2011)

 

 

• Lover and estranged wife both forge will (May, 2011)

 

 

• Ronnie Barker's fugitive son left £2m by mother... but will he come out of hiding to collect it? (April, 2011)

 

 

• Bernard Matthews' lovechild to inherit  £30million... and turkey tycoon leaves £1million to his mystery 'long-term partner' (April, 2011)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MENTAL CAPACITY NEWS

 

• Son in legal battle with county to save heirlooms (May 2012) LOCAL NEWS!

 

• Secret court seizes £3.2bn from elderly... and even forces furious families to pay to access own bank account (October, 2009)

 

• Secret court takes four months to give elderly their own money, and then charges £400 for the privilege (November, 2009)