{"id":118273,"date":"2025-11-04T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118273\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:15:12","slug":"midlands-law-firm-bolsters-birmingham-team-to-tackle-rise-in-disputes-over-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/118273\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands law firm bolsters Birmingham team to tackle rise in disputes over wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The triple impact of a rise in the number of blended families, an ageing population of \u2018baby boomers\u2019 and an increase in the number of people diagnosed with dementia, which could leave a will open to challenge, are all driving the increase in cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e4cccd78-c518-4c0b-af68-1dfdab265a96.jpg\"   alt=\"L-R: FBC Manby Bowdler CEO Neil Lloyd with partner Charlotte Clode and partner Kimberly Mears\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>L-R: FBC Manby Bowdler CEO Neil Lloyd with partner Charlotte Clode and partner Kimberly Mears<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbcmb.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FBC Manby Bowdler<\/a>, as part of a wider expansion across the Midlands, is responding by strengthening its city centre team with a dedicated contentious probate team, led by award-winning lawyer Charlotte Clode, a partner at the firm and previous winner of Lawyer of the Year at the Modern Law Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte, a top ranked litigator and one of the firm\u2019s lead advisors on contentious wills, trusts and probate matters, is joined by Kimberly Mears, partner and a specialist in estate matters including challenges to the validity of wills, inheritance claims and the removal of executors and trustees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The triple impact of a rise in the number of blended families, an ageing population of \u2018baby boomers\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14505,138,246,12599,111,43,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-118273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-local-hubs","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-personal-finance","17":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}