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Rhinefield Probus Meeting Report May 2015

 

May 20th Club Meeting

Now you would think that a lady Solicitor giving a talk on Probate to an association of retired businessmen would lead to a few of the listeners nodding off over their morning coffees. In fact one might be tempted to put money on that happening.

A seemingly dry as dust topic like Probate given by a legal eagle!!  - a sure bet.

But….nothing remotely like that happens when Alex Jennings is standing up before an audience!

She has an almost breathtaking mastery of her brief and a style of delivery which brings a relevance, interest and humour to her subject – helped of course by her audience who are at that certain age when subjects like Probate have an increasing urgency about them!

Amongst other points in Mrs Jennings’ talk were the rights of survivors to joint assets and the opportunities to defraud the taxman by non tax exempt person benefiting from jointly held assets passing over on death without declaration for tax.  

Another little known ploy which was highlighted during the recent elections (as part of a character assassination ) is the use of a Deed of Variation to beneficially alter certain aspects of a will within 2 years of death which acts as if the deceased had made the change.

A thoroughly entertaining hour was spent with Alex followed by a deluge of questions on the subject which she made especially interesting.

May 7th Honda Factory visit

Many Rhinefield Probus members also had a very enjoyable visit to the Honda factory at Swindon on May 7th and were given a brief introductory talk followed by a conducted tour of the site. The visit ended with a typical Japanese lunch, which was much enjoyed by all.

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