Probate and Estate Administration; Intestacy and Bona Vacantia Estates; Wills and Powers of Attorney; Residential Freehold and Leasehold Conveyancing
Law was a second career for Ruth: after she studied Maths at Cambridge and Warwick Universities, she moved to Mid Wales in 1995 to run a design and print business in Newtown, qualified as an Accounting Technician and worked for an educational charity and an MP. She has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives since 2014, after being awarded the CILEx Student of the Year award in 2012, for gaining the highest marks in the country in her degree-level law exams. In 2015 she obtained her probate practising rights as the first ever Chartered Legal Executive Probate Practitioner, followed a month later by her conveyancing practising rights, becoming the first dual-qualified Chartered Legal Executive Practitioner.
As well as being experienced in general probate and conveyancing, Ruth is a specialist in intestate estate administration of Bona Vacantia estates, working for two of the country’s top probate genealogy firms, or ‘heir hunters’. She enjoys the extra challenge of the ‘detective work’ that is involved in these estates, where often there is very little known about a person who may have been estranged from their families for decades.
Outside of work, Ruth’s interests have always included music and drama, as a member of Newtown Musical Theatre Company and Côr Trefaldwyn for many years, being a Brownie Leader in Montgomery and County Brownie Adviser for Montgomeryshire, and editing the Montgomery town bimonthly magazine The Crier.