A properly drafted Power of Attorney allows you to make provision in advance for the possibility that, at some stage, you require somebody else to deal with your financial or welfare affairs. However, it is important to understand what powers an attorney has under a Power of Attorney, and their limitations.

Murray Beith Murray Private Client Partner, Peter Shand appeared in The Scotsman last week, explaining how the tv show 'Succession' is sometimes not that far from the truth when inheritance and succession squabbles arise. Read the full article below, republished by kind permission of The Scotsman:

Murray Beith Murray are named by eprivateclient this week in the ‘2023 eprivateclient Top Law Firms’ rankings. eprivateclient are specialist news providers for practitioners and compile annual rankings from analysis of 150 of the UK’s best law firms. 

Murray Beith Murray has been recognised this week, by The Legal 500 UK 2024, as a Tier 2 legal practice for ‘Personal tax, trusts and executries’, ‘Contentious trusts and probate’ and ‘Agriculture and Estates’, one of the few Scottish private client law firms to be acknowledged in the top two tiers for all three core practice areas.

You might say it is a matter of life and death. Basically, an attorney deals with the affairs of someone whilst they are alive whilst an executor deals with the affairs of someone who has died. Whilst that might seem simple and straightforward, it is important to understand the different functions of an attorney and an executor.