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Is it also correct to say that the trend is also changing with regard to solatium settlements to sons and daughters? As I understand it, the trend for claims both by widows and by sons and daughters has changed consistently.
However, for the past five years, she has had to cope with a particular family—a mother with a succession of different partners and with a 16-year-old son who is apparently totally out of control.
I own a business that lets out farm cottages and I own land at Scotston Hill, which is grazed by livestock belonging to the family firm, J S Baird and Sons, of which I am a sleeping partner.
In common with many young people, my son is just coming back from a long time in Australia, and I suspect that he will have been rubbing shoulders or drinking beer—whatever students do—with people from all over the planet, including future movers and shakers who will always have good will towards Australia.
A couple of weeks ago, I met a tenant farmer who said that he would rather have compensation for his investment in improvements during the tenancy than be unable to retire and allow his son to take over the tenancy because he has no cash.