Susan J Midha

Experience:

Susan joined Adams & Remers in 2008. She initially practiced as a barrister, and requalified as a solicitor in 1986. Susan has specialised since then in private client work, holding senior roles with City based firms and since 1999 as sole principal with her own Kent-based specialist practice which has attracted clients from across the UK.

She is widely recognised as an expert in her field, having broadcast on radio and television and written for a number of publications including The Sunday Times and the Financial Times. She is also an accredited mediator, helping to resolve disputes particularly in relation to family issues. Several times, in recent years, she has been appointed administrator of estates by the Court under provisions of the Supreme Court Act.

Susan has lectured for Central Law Training, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and Solicitors for the Elderly on (among other things) issues relating to mental capacity, undue influence, conflicts of interest and trustee delegation.

Summary of Specialisms:

Susan specialises in all aspects of wills, probate and trusts, tax and estate planning, including:

• Trust creation and winding up – and everything in between
• Drafting wills and codicils and advising on their meaning and effect
• Inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning
• Estate planning
• Advice for co-habitees
• Ownership of property abroad
• Varying wills and intestacies, post-death
• Advice with regard to will, probate and trust disputes
• Mediation (resolution) of disputes
• Enduring powers of attorney and lasting powers of attorney services for those who are mentally incapable
• Services for people with learning disabilities and their families
• Advice regarding nursing and residential home fees
• Advice on tax issues relating to the family home and second properties

Professional History:

• Adams & Remers: joined 2008
• Sole Principal, own practice: 1999 to 2008
• Manches Aldwych, Head of Private Client: 1996 to 1999
• Building & Property Litigation Solicitor, Herbert Oppenheimer Nathan and Vandyk
• Barrister, Year of Call 1979 (Inner Temple)

Memberships:

• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) - until recently Chairman, Kent Branch
• Member of the STEP Working Party with regard Trustee Risk
• Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists
• Solicitors for the Elderly (awarded the first President’s Award)
• Clarity (organisation promising the use of plain English for lawyers)