Jane advises on estate, succession and tax planning for farming and business clients through Wills and trusts acting for UK-based and non resident clients. She deals with complex estate administrations; private and charitable trusts; literary estates and Court of Protection work including:-
- Acting as executor of a landed estate including properties, agricultural land, animals, and personal chattels subject to conditional exemption from inheritance tax.
- Acting for trustees distributing agricultural assets from a trust.
- Advising the partners of a farming business in the exercise of an option to purchase a deceased’s partner’s share maximising the use of tax reliefs.
- Bringing to an end a trust of shares in a private limited company.
- Estate planning for farming partners grazing sheep and raising poultry, a farm shop, horses and holiday lets.
- Acting as Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection to manage the affairs of a client who is incapable of managing his own financial affairs.
Jane qualified in 1979. She worked at Shoosmiths for seven years and joined Henmans as an associate in 2004 becoming a partner in 2005.
She is a member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.