Private Client
Estate Planning
May 23rd 2023
Virtual Seminar
Estate Planning And The Family Home
May 23rd 2023
2 - 5pm
Speakers: Alan Eccles
Virtual Seminar
The family home is often the crown jewel asset. An asset that has been hard-earned and deserves careful treatment in succession and estate planning. It also an asset that has more than just a financial value and the emotional ties to a home must be recognised when protecting it and passing it down generations. Tax on houses must also be considered.
This seminar will look at estate planning issues associated with homes including:
The event begins at 2pm. Delegate registration is open from 1:30pm.
Alan's work covers three main areas: charities, private client and parliamentary matters.
Alan's private client work covers estate planning including wills, executries, trusts and inheritance tax. He is the author of the Scotland chapter in the textbook International Succession. As part of his private client advice Alan often advises on incapacity law (powers of attorney, court appointed guardianship and other methods of managing the affairs of those less able to do so). This has involved acting in some of the leading Sottish cases on incapacity law and estate and succession planning. A regular commentator on incapacity law matters, Alan's written work has been referred to in judicial decision making. Of Alan's private client work, the Legal 500 notes that he "conveys complicated legal concepts with clarity and humour".
He was previously a member of the legal staff at the Scottish Law Commission and currently lectures at the University of Strathclyde in property, trusts and charities. Alan has also tutored private client law at the University of Glasgow.
Alan was a member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland from 2007 to 2009 and the Society's Education and Training Committee from 2007 to 2012. He is currently a member of the Society's Charity Law and Mental Health and Disability Law Committees.
