After all, thirty million adults in the UK don’t have one. Can they all be wrong? Well, that’s thirty million families who are facing a potential crisis – financially and personally. You decide. Do you have a will? Do the other adults in your family? If not, why are you putting it off? One of…
Losing a parent is hard. If your parent dies without a will, it’s much harder still. When you lose a close family member, it can feel as though you’re entering a bit of time warp. Some people lose their sense of time, place and context following a death in the family – as though the…
What’s the safest place you can think of for storing your Will? In Michael Jackson’s case, they couldn’t find his Will for ages. As the siblings, parents, cousins, nephews and in-laws closed in, the Jackson’s family lawyer, L. Londell McMillan, kept them at bay while searching high and low for the document. It was an…
If you’ve ever seen ‘Heir Hunters’ (BBC), you’ve probably been shocked at how much money goes unclaimed by relatives of someone who’s passed away intestate – not having a Will. In some cases, hundreds of thousands of pounds finds its way to the Government, missing the chance to change the lives of loved ones. When…
When you have your Will written by a professional Will Writer then you will be provided with a professional service. You will receive sound advice on what is the best type of Will for you. This will be tailored to a client’s individual needs. This may be a Basic Will of more a more complex…
Your Will is a very important document. Executors of the person Will who has died have to obtain the original Will in order to deal with a person’s estate. The original Will is needed for Probate. If you stored your Will with Wetherby Wills then your documents are safe from tampering, or a person disposing…
Probate is a term commonly used when talking about applying for the right to deal with the affairs of someone who has died. If the deceased has a Will, the Executor or Administrator will apply for a Grant of Probate. This is a court order which is a legal document confirming that the Executor or…
For married couple if you use a Will Trust and by severing the tenancy of the property, so that it is owned as a 50% each and not jointly, then the dwelling house held for the purpose of accommodating the joint owners and that purpose is still subsisting, there is nothing obscure or abstruse in…
If you do not make a Will your intended beneficiaries may not get what you wanted them to have. The vast majority of people put off making a Will for a variety of reasons, either believing that people they would wish to inherit will do so or they don’t think that it is relevant to…
Who is entitled to the estate? For deaths after 1 October 2014:- Married couples and civil partners without children The spouse or civil partner inherits the full estate regardless of whether there are surviving parents or not. Married couples and civil partners with children The spouse (or civil partner) is entitled to: The personal chattels absolutely…
