Kerry Hull

Kerry specialises in contentious trust, probate, and Court of Protection work, including representing clients in disputes relating to challenges to wills on issues of validity, including testamentary capacity, execution, knowledge and approval, and fraud.

She advises on bringing or defending claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, predatory marriages, the removal and substitution of trustees, promissory and proprietary estoppel claims, disputes involving joints accounts and ownership of funds, Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustee Act 1996 claims and issues involving the creation of Constructive and/or Resulting Trusts and beneficial interest claims in property, advising on infant and protected party settlements, the recovery and tracing of assets, deputyship applications, revocation of LPAs, and the creation of statutory wills.

Examples of Kerry’s work include:

• Defending claims while acting for a spouse as executor to her late husband’s will against adult children.
• Disproving allegations of undue influence, fraudulent signatures, and Inheritance Act claims.
• Filing an application to the court for an abuse of process following the repeated entry of caveats and obtaining grant extraction following 13 years of challenges and caveat entries.
• Acting for a wife following the intestate death of her husband and pursuing a constructive trust and proprietary estoppel claim based on the common intention and agreement for the purchase of a joint property held in the sole name of the deceased husband.
• Defending an Inheritance Act claim brought by the deceased’s former partner who challenged the deceased will and trust provisions which provided for the parties’ minor child -successfully protecting the infant child’s interest in the estate.