Sarah Cornish

Sarah has a wide client base which includes many agricultural clients. Her involvement begins at the stage of succession planning through the generations working with the family and their accountant, or farm advisor, through to obtaining Probate and the Administration of Estates.

Sarah regularly deals with high value estates successfully making both Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief claims.

She also deals with estates involving non-domiciled testators and beneficiaries and estates with overseas assets.

Sarah also advises on issues surrounding asset protection in the context of Will drafting and also in relation to the creation and administration of Trusts.

In addition, to advising on and preparing Powers of Attorney, Sarah acts as a professional Attorney and Deputy which involves responsibility for overseeing the financial affairs of vulnerable clients.

Notable Private Client cases

• Succession Planning
  

  Advising Executors in a multimillion pound estate on the interaction between a Gift with Reservation of Benefit and a Discretionary Settlement.

• Probate & Administration of Estates
  

  Advising executors of an estate and trustees where during the life tenants’ lifetime they had built a property upon Trust land and how to account for this in the Inheritance Tax Return.

• Probate & Administration of Estates
  

  Making various applications for Grant De Bonis Non where there have been estates left unadministered where the original Personal Representative has died leaving part of the estate unadministered.

• Agricultural Succession Planning
  

  Advising in relation to succession planning for various agricultural families including the creation of Trusts to pass properties down through the generations.