Membership of ACTAPS

New qualification for Lionel Conner

Our partner Lionel Conner has just become an associate member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPs) following his successful completion of a three-year course (which he compressed into two years) with the London based College of Law in Contentious Trust and Probate.

This course relates to disputed wills, challenges by people who have been disinherited and claims under the Inheritance (Provision for family and Dependents) Act 1975. The 1975 Act allows dependents and family members, and this can include a cohabitee or partner, if they have not been properly provided for.

Lionel is already a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Whose members are specialists in wills, trusts and probate.

Membership of ACTAPS and STEP will allow Lionel , through Samble ,Burton & Worth and Irvings solicitors Derby, to give a more rounded service to client who wish to draw up or challenge a will or make an inheritance claim