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    • Home
    • Helping you
      • Overview
      • Declarations of Trust
      • Deeds of Variation
      • Estate administration
      • Estate planning
      • Family Investment Company
      • Inheritance Tax (IHT)
      • Life without children
      • Making a Will
      • Powers of attorney
      • Trusts
    • Paths to Parenthood
      • Adoption
      • Blended families
      • Egg donation
      • Fostering
      • LGBTQ+
      • Parental responsibility
      • Solo parents
      • Sperm donation
      • Supporting you
      • Surrogacy
    • About us
      • Meet the Lawyer in London
      • Why choose us?
      • Office locations
      • Disclaimer and legal info
    • Legal insights
    • Privacy Policy
    • Visit our Instagram
    • Amy Lane - gunnercooke
  • Home
  • Helping you
    • Overview
    • Declarations of Trust
    • Deeds of Variation
    • Estate administration
    • Estate planning
    • Family Investment Company
    • Inheritance Tax (IHT)
    • Life without children
    • Making a Will
    • Powers of attorney
    • Trusts
  • Paths to Parenthood
    • Adoption
    • Blended families
    • Egg donation
    • Fostering
    • LGBTQ+
    • Parental responsibility
    • Solo parents
    • Sperm donation
    • Supporting you
    • Surrogacy
  • About us
    • Meet the Lawyer in London
    • Why choose us?
    • Office locations
    • Disclaimer and legal info
  • Legal insights
  • Privacy Policy
  • Visit our Instagram
  • Amy Lane - gunnercooke

Fostering

What do I need to consider?

Estate planning for foster children requires specific legal steps because, in the UK, they do not automatically have the same inheritance rights as biological or legally adopted children.  

Inheritance rights

If you do not have a Will, foster children do not have automatic inheritance rights like biological or adopted children.  If you want to make provision for a foster child(ren), you should do this in your Will. 

How would I make provision for them?

It depends on how many children you are currently or have formerly fostered and how many you want to make provision for.  You may also want to make provision for formerly fostered children. 

Do I need a power of attorney?

Absolutely.  It's important so the financial wellbeing of the foster children are catered for pending a decision whether you are able to continue to foster them so a power of attorney is incredibly important.  

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