The partners of a law firm with offices in Wrexham, Oswestry and Llangollen celebrated the firm’s 55^th anniversary on Friday 11^th July by inviting staff and former partners to join them for afternoon tea followed by an evening river cruise.

My wife left me last year. We have two sons whom we co-parent half a week each. She did not want to stay in the jointly owned marital home, and somehow managed to get a housing association property in another town near her new partner, although they do not ‘officially’ live together. She does not want a divorce right now, which I suspect is because she hopes I will receive an inheritance before that happens and she thinks she will get half of it in the divorce settlement. Would she be entitled to any of my inheritance?

Writing a Will is something that all adults should do, and as lawyers we are constantly driving home the importance of doing it at an early age. But whilst more young people are now taking this on board, there is still a danger that once they have done it they will file it away and forget about the need for updating it.

There is so much bad press these days about holidays and what can happen to the consumer when things go wrong, I am nervous about booking a holiday online through one of the travel portals. If I were to book a flight and hotel separately, as opposed to buying a readymade ‘package holiday’, would I have any legal protection?

I have remarried but my children are from my first marriage and my new wife has children from her previous marriage. How can I make sure that only my own children benefit from my estate if I die before my wife, and still ensure that she is sufficiently provided for during her lifetime.

How many medical intervention decisions are based on statistics rather than on the evidence presented by patients who know their own bodies? Those whose lives have been cut short because of an initial misdiagnosis would say ‘too many’.

So why are there so many missed opportunities for early intervention, and what can victims do to get justice?

I manage a team of 14 people, several of whom are working parents. It has always been company policy to give priority to working parents when it comes to annual leave requests during school holidays. There is one member of staff, however, who has no children but whose wife works as a teacher. He is a good employee whom I would hate to lose, but he is very angry that he is never allowed to take his leave during school holidays when his wife is off. I have spoken to head office about it, but they are adamant that they are sticking to company policy – no kids, no school holiday leave. Isn’t this discrimination?

We have just had our first child and want to make our Wills. However, we have discovered it isn’t as straightforward as we thought it would be. We have heard people mention single Wills, mirror Wills and Trust Wills. Please can you explain the differences.

My wife and I are amicably separated and are both keen to move on with our own lives. We have no children so everything should be straightforward and therefore, to save money, we are tempted to apply for a ‘quickie divorce’ using the new ‘no-fault’ process. However, we are aware that we still need to apply for a Clean Break Financial Order and are not comfortable doing this ourselves. Can you offer any advice on how we could keep our costs down if we use a solicitor?

My partner and I have been living together in rented property for a couple of years and she is keen for us to buy a house together. Neither of us want to get married as we don’t want children and therefore cannot see a need to. My concern is that I owned a house with my ex-wife and came out of the divorce with a chunk of money that we will need to use for the deposit on the new home. Not unreasonably, I would like to protect the money I put into our new home but am not sure of the best way to go about it. Please can you advise?