To qualify, the property must have been vacant for a minimum of two years immediately prior to the grant application

A genuine redundancy must be based on the role being eliminated, not the person, writes rural solicitor Karen Walsh

I need clarity on what I can do next and what the law allows

Starting the process is often the hardest step, writes rural solicitor Karen Walsh

In intestacy, the estate is distributed in a fixed order, depending on which relatives are alive at the time of death, writes solicitor Karen Walsh.

When a person has committed years of their life to caring for property in reliance on assurances given to them, it feels deeply unjust to be left without security, writes rural solicitor Karen Walsh

It is important that landowners living abroad are not careless about the risks of adverse possession, writes rural solicitor Karen Walsh.

I know I am supposed to have a health and safety statement in place and Risk Assessment Document, but I have kept putting it off. What it is the importance of this?

When one spouse dies leaving a will, and the surviving spouse has not renounced his/her rights, then that surviving spouse has a right known as a 'Legal Right Share' to a share of a portion of deceased spouse’s estate, writes solicitor Karen Walsh

We agreed on a price of €50,000. The job is now done and I asked for payment, but now he is saying it couldn’t possibly be this amount and that we never agreed on that price, writes this week's reader