Dr. Sarah Egan
Sarah is a specialist Wills, Trusts, and Estates barrister.
Sarah’s expertise extends to Property and Commercial Litigation, as well as Family Law matters involving aspects of Chancery and Commercial Law, such as trusts, inheritance, property, and companies.
Trusts, Wills & Estates
Sarah’s expertise includes providing specialist advice and representation, and undertaking drafting on the following:
Succession and Contentious and Non-Contentious Probate
- Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Act 1975 claims on behalf of spouses, cohabitees, children, stepchildren, and siblings of the Deceased;
- testamentary capacity;
- challenges to the validity of Wills;
- Executors’ powers and duties;
- Applications for the removal of Executors;
- the settlement of Wills and the administration of Estates;
- the rectification and variation of Wills.
Trusts
- Trust Deeds and Deeds of Variation;
- Trustees’ powers and duties;
- Breach of trust and the removal of Trustees;
- the merits of trusts claims (including express, resulting, and constructive trusts, and proprietary estoppel);
- Applications for the removal of Trustees;
Trusts of Land and Co-Ownership
- Claims under The Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 for declarations of trust and beneficial interest in co-ownership disputes.
Sarah’s expertise extends to Property and Commercial Litigation, as well as financial remedies in Family Law involving private client, such as trusts and inheritance, property, and companies.