by johnireland | Articles
Most people who decide to get fitter in their fifties start by doing more cardiovascular exercise. They walk further, buy a bike, perhaps take up swimming. All of it is worthwhile. None of it addresses the thing that most determines how the next thirty years will...
by johnireland | Articles
Of all the decisions involved in making a Will, this is the one that stops people. Fees, Executors, even the division of an estate are dealt with briskly. Then the question arrives — who would raise your children if you and their other parent could not — and the...
by johnireland | Estate Planning Essentials
When a business owner dies, practical problems start immediately, long before probate is granted. A sole trader’s bank account, or any account in a personal name, is frozen the moment the bank hears of the death, stopping payments to staff and suppliers...
by johnireland | Articles
Most business owners have thought about who gets the shares if something happens to them. Far fewer have thought about what happens on the Monday morning after. Who can pay the wages? Who can sign the cheques? Can the business even trade while probate is sorted out?...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Never Split the Difference, by former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, is not a book about tax or estate planning — but it is unusually useful for business owners facing three specific conversations: negotiating a business sale, resolving a shareholder dispute, and...
