From her statement published in the Guardian today: “A court-instructed trust was established in 2020 following a deeply personal and distressing incident involving my son as a premature baby. He was… (View Post)

NB. To give an idea of the size of compensation claims in these kind of cases, this consultation document from 2016 says that “The average settlement for a severe neurological birth injury case equat… (View Post)

It doesn’t matter: https://x.com/DanNeidle/status/1963192434684285068 The law deems a parent the “owner” of a property placed into trust for a child when calculating tax liabilities, whether they wer… (View Post)

It does sound like self-dealing, but equally it seems to me that owning the family home to ensure continuity of housing in the future isn’t the worst thing to spend part of a medical settlement on. T… (View Post)

Because the child is under age, or not otherwise competent to manage their own affairs & has been given a large sum of money. The money is not the property of the parents, it is the property of t… (View Post)