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A Bolton man stole £50,000 of his disabled dad’s inheritance and blew it on drugs, drink and sex workers, UK Yahoos news reported this week.

A man is currently involved in a £1.5million court fight after allegedly pressuring his 96-year-old mother into changing her will and cutting her dead daughter’s children out of their inheritance.

An anti-poverty campaign group has urged ministers in Scotland to consider introducing a local inheritance tax as way of tackling wealth inequality.

More young people in China have been preparing wills that include digital assets that previous generations would not have considered, according to a recent article in The Straits Times.

An American winery is currently locked in a legal battle with the estate of the late singer Prince over a collection of wine named Purple Rain, the NME reports.

DIY will writing services have made it easier for people to include ‘wacky’ terms in their wills, according to an article in the Daily Mail this week.

The exponential growth in property prices in London may be behind the large rise in the volume of contentious probate work.

The richest in society are twice as likely to benefit from an inheritance than the poorest, a new study by the Resolution Foundation reveals.

The owner of a brewery who has yet to hand over half of his aunt’s fortune to the charities she left it to in her will has been removed as the executor of her will, an article in the Daily Mail reports.

A cleaner accused of stealing more than £30,000 worth of goods from her employers claimed she was accused of being dishonest during a row about inheritance, the Shropshire Star reported this week.