Nearly four decades after members of the Scindia royal family first walked into court over ancestral properties worth thousands of crores, the dispute may finally be approaching a settlement. The ...

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When we look into a hospital postnatal ward and see a group of sleeping infants, we often picture a scene of complete innocence. We picture tiny, bundle-wrapped babies who are entirely dependent on ...

Inheritance tax allowances have been frozen for years, steadily eroding their value and dragging more families into the tax net. The annual £3,000 tax-free gifting allowance hasn’t changed since 1981, ...

Giving cash gifts to loved ones, be it friends or family, is something many want to do, especially later in life. But the rules around taxes on them can be complex.

Inheritance fights are largely believed to happen only after death: A will is read, a sibling feels slighted, a family home becomes the center of a dispute. But estate experts say a more troubling ...

With a background in financial journalism across national titles, Ruby loves helping people take control of their money and specialises in pensions, tax, banking and benefits. If your estate is worth ...

Inheritance tax is the gift that keeps on giving to the chancellor but for families mourning loved ones it can be a complicated minefield to get right at an already difficult time, with an avalanche ...

There are few parts of the law quite as fraught as succession. As the great wealth transfer gets under way, wrangling about who gets what is tearing families apart Get our breaking news email, free ...

09:32, Mon, Feb 9, 2026 Updated: 09:33, Mon, Feb 9, 2026 Millions of families are being dragged into the inheritance tax net as frozen thresholds collide with soaring house prices. But parents can ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...