Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is wills and the administration of estates about?

    3. → Overview of wills and the administration of estates MIND MAP

    4. Key definitions

    5. Key legislation

    1. Overview of the validity of a will

    2. Introduction to wills

    3. → Introduction to wills MIND MAP

    4. Property that passes outside the will or intestacy rules

    5. Analysis of beneficial entitlements on death

    6. → Analysis of beneficial entitlements on death MIND MAP

    7. → Worked example MIND MAP

    8. Formalities

    9. Example will

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Validity of a will

    1. Overview of interpretation of wills

    2. Introduction to the interpretation of wills

    3. Determining the testator's intention

    4. Rectification

    5. → Rectification MIND MAP

    6. Property passing under the will

    7. → Property passing under the will MIND MAP

    8. Identifying the beneficiaries

    9. → Identifying the beneficiaries MIND MAP

    10. Failure of legacies under a will

    11. PRACTISE MCQs: Interpretation of wills

    1. Overview of revocation and alteration of wills

    2. Revocation and codicils

    3. Mutual wills

    4. → Mutual wills MIND MAP

    5. Altering a will

    6. → Altering a will MIND MAP

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Revocation and alteration of wills

    1. Overview of intestacy

    2. Introduction to intestacy

    3. Surviving partners and issue

    4. No surviving partner or issue

    5. → No surviving partner or issue MIND MAP

    6. Illegitimate children

    7. → Illegitimate children MIND MAP

    8. Appropriation of properties

    9. PRACTISE MCQs: Intestacy

    1. Overview of claims against estates and redirections

    2. Introduction to claims against the estate and redirections

    3. Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

    4. Time limit for family provision applications

    5. → Time limit for family provision applications MIND MAP

    6. Grounds and guidelines for a family provision claim

    7. Post-death redirections

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: Claims against estates

    1. Overview of grants of representation

    2. Grants of representation

    3. Applying for a grant of representation

    4. Grants of probate

    5. → Grants of probate MIND MAP

    6. Grants of letters of administration

    7. Excepted estates

    8. Limited grants

    9. → Limited grants MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Grants of representation

    1. Overview of rights of beneficiaries and powers, duties and liabilities of PRs

    2. Rights of beneficiaries

    3. Powers of personal representatives

    4. Duties of personal representatives

    5. Tax considerations

    6. Liability of personal representatives

    7. PRACTISE MCQs: Rights of beneficiaries

    1. Overview of inheritance tax

    2. Inheritance tax and reporting to HMRC

    3. PRACTISE MCQs: Inheritance tax

    1. Instructions

    2. Wills and the administration of estates MOCK EXAMS

Wills and the administration of estates

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  • 70 minutes of video content
  • 14 mind maps

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James Richardson

Co-founder, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy.

He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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