Sentence examples for half of estates from inspiring English sources

Half of estates worth over £1m pay no tax.

The Law Commission says the problem will be even worse as more than half of estates are administered without a formal grant.

Sir Robert Ogle was now outlawed and the king used half of his estates to compensate Poynings for the ransom he had expended arranging his release from captivity.

This means that if a wife writes a will bequeathing her entire estate to her daughter, one half of her estate will automatically be given to her husband instead, regardless of the terms of her will.

In 1997, over half of all estate-tax payments were made by 2,400 estates with a gross value of over $5m.Thus the tax in fact affects very few farmers and small businesses.

The ruling would distribute nearly half of the estate, which now stands at about 10,000 acres, down from about 16,000 in the late 1980s because the family has sold off some land.

He left half of his estate to the RSPCA.

While alive, he had given her cars, a little ranch and $50,000 a month; orally, she claimed, he had also promised her half of his estate of $1.6 billion.

The survivor inherits half of the estate if there are no children and if there are surviving ascendants on only one side of the deceased's family.

Iman, Bowie's supermodel wife of 24 years, will receive half of his estate, reportedly in instalments four times per year.

Typical of the repartee was a Wednesday exchange about Ms. Smith's assertion that her husband promised her half of his estate.