Author: Stephen Rigden (1999)

Stephen Rigden
Research Director
Title Research
(From Issue 7, January 1999)

The article below provides us with a view on the difficulties of tracing beneficiaries and the circumstances when a professional genealogist services are of use. As someone looking at one specific area of estate and trust administration the author reminds of the practical difficulties and expense that can flow from trying to trace those entitled to benefit

Despite the advances of modern science, to the best of the writer’s knowledge it is still not possible to control one’s financial affairs posthumously! However, in anticipation of and in preparation for death, a will may be written, perhaps setting up a will trust, in an attempt to influence the destination of worldly assets, at least in the immediate future following one’s demise.