Q:  My husband and I would very much like to help our daughter with a house deposit so that she and her boyfriend can get on the housing ladder. What concerns us, though, is that if they split up and the house is in joint names her boyfriend could walk off with half the deposit gifted to our daughter. Is there any way that we can prevent this happening?

A Wrexham lawyer who is an authority on grandparents’ rights has added his support to a group currently campaigning for policymakers to recognise the contribution made by grandparents in the upbringing of their grandchildren.

An Oswestry based lawyer who is an authority on children and grandparents’ rights has added her support to a group currently campaigning for policymakers to recognise the contribution made by grandparents in the upbringing of their grandchildren.

Q:  I lease a house on a gated development where I pay a monthly service charge in addition to ground rent. The service charge, used to pay for street lighting, upkeep of communal gardens etc, has just been doubled despite there being no tangible increase in the services provided. How can I find out exactly what my service charge is being used for?

A Wrexham born solicitor who works in Oswestry is in the final days of hard training for the Chester Half Marathon which she will run on Sunday 17th May in honour of a family friend who died seven years ago next month from bowel cancer, aged just 28 years.

Q: My husband left me last year for another woman. I stayed in the family home with our son who is seventeen and going to university this year. I stopped work when my son was born but recently managed to get a minimum wage job, working 16 hours a week, to maintain the mortgage payments as my husband stopped paying.  As well as the salary from his current job my husband has received a fire service pension for the last five years, whilst I struggle to make ends meet. Am I entitled to any of his pension?

Q: We lost a couple of big contracts and as a result we have been forced to make some redundancies in order to keep the company commercially viable. Most of the lads have been understanding about the situation but one worker who is renowned for being difficult and demanding his rights has gone off sick in the middle of the consultation period. His sick note cites stress and depression, which of course he claims is our fault. Are we legally within our rights to continue with the process of his redundancy?

A leading North Wales and Shropshire law firm has appointed three of its senior solicitors as equity partners.