Clare McCarroll
Partner
Private Client Services
Phone
0131 656 5609
Address
Caledonian Exchange 19A Canning Street Edinburgh EH3 8HE
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About Clare
Previously the head of the executry department in a long established Edinburgh firm, Clare is now a Partner in our Private Client team. She has experience in advising a broad spectrum of clients in the preparation of Wills and Power of Attorney and she specialises in all aspects of winding up executry estates.
Clare also has experience in conveyancing and has a particular interest in executry conveyancing and the crossover between succession and property law.
Clare is a member of the Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet.
Expertise
Highlights
- Successfully establishing a Canadian domicile for a deceased client resident in Scotland resulting in agreement from HMRC that no inheritance tax was due from the estate.
- Putting in place a chain of three Grants of Confirmation to allow a client to sell property stuck in the name of a long deceased family member.
- Assisting clients based in Mauritius, New Zealand and Australia access assets held in Scotland.
- Tracing closest living relative of a reclusive deceased who had died without a Will. Establishing family tree and identifying those people entitled to the estate.
