Five things clients will call you about this week

Trusts The use of a trust, rather than a will, for inheritance tax purposes was the focus of a piece in the Telegraph at the weekend. It highlighted a recent case where a multi-millionaire businessman ran into trouble using a trust because his son tried to prevent his mother getting any of her late husband's wealth. In-house advisers A piece in the Observer, meanwhile, attacked estate agents' in-house mortgage ‘advisers'. It said that a ‘new trick' was emerging in the frothier bits of the property market whereby some agents are forbidding potential buyers from even visiting a propert...