International Trusts and Estates Disputes
Even with careful planning, trust and estates disputes can and do arise. Whether you are a UK resident beneficiary of a trust holding assets offshore, or a Trustee of a non-resident trust governed by English law or a trust which holds assets in the UK, we can help.
Sectors and Services
International Trusts and Estates Disputes
What we do:
Our experienced team of dispute resolution specialists will navigate the particular challenges posed by disputes with an international dimension.
We work closely with our international network of contacts and advisers to ensure that we can deliver outcomes that take full account of the competing laws in other jurisdictions.
We can help with:
- Domicile disputes
- Tracing claims
- Claims attacking or defending the validity of a trust
- Forensic tax analysis of UK trusts
- Issue and service of proceedings in the UK on trustees resident overseas
- Bringing and defending claims to remove or replace trustees
- Bringing and defending breach of trust actions
- Seeking the Court’s approval of trustees’ actions (blessing applications)
- Applications for Beddoe relief
- Applications to set aside transfers into or out of a trust
- Trustees’ responses to beneficiaries’ requests for information
- Applications to vary the terms of a trust under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958
- Trusts and divorce
