Reply to: Taking out a will

[Old Greg]

It will be especially important after tonight's big win.

The cats' home is already eying up diamond collars.

[mudskipper]

It will be especially important after tonight's big win.

[geoffreywhereveryoumaybe]

Come November, try will aid Will Aid

[Old Greg]

If it's straightforward, then do it yourself - my first will was one that I wrote myself and then got witnessed correctly. Then when I got married, that one became void.

If there is any complexity, then get a solicitor to do it - won't cost much to do. Make sure you get a copy of it, and make sure that someone else knows where the will is kept - my family had no idea which solicitor had copies, and we didn't have one at home.

Bit in bold is critical. My sister's partner was very sick and made a will in her favour. They got married and he didn't make a new will. When he died he was intestate which was very stressful.

[Scrag Meister]

Did that involve travelling anywhere or someone coming out to you - also did you get the witnesses yourself?

Bloke came to our house, got witnessed ourselves by people at work.

Cost about £120 if I remember correctly.

[suityou01]

HMG will get it all sooner or later... with 40% death tax it won't take many generations

WHS

[AtW]

If you die intestate it does not mean your wife inherits, in theory HMG could get the lot!

HMG will get it all sooner or later... with 40% death tax it won't take many generations

[darmstadt]

Freebie: Do Your Own Will Online — Free Online Will. There's even an app

[mudskipper]

We did ours 22 years ago. Hubby still hasn't got round to getting his signed...

[Paddy]

Aye but with a contractor you get a contractor doing the work but with a solicitor you pay for a solicitor and a 17 year old spotty oik on minimum wage does the work...

+1

[NotAllThere]

We had one done by a solicitor about 15 years ago. Five years ago, we re-did it using an online service. I couldn't see the difference - except in the amount that it cost.

If you're following the normal inheritance paths, there really is no need to involved a professional.

[norrahe]

I need to find someone in cloggers, we're looking at buying a house over here and with the house in blighty as well.

Though its not going to be cheap if the notary that reviewed my last contract is anything to go by, at least €800

[Troll]

The wife and I used Willwriting Service Limited.

Did that involve travelling anywhere or someone coming out to you - also did you get the witnesses yourself?

[Scrag Meister]

I need to make a will out and was wondering if I can use an online service, a WHS Smith pack or whether it's best to get a solicitor in? How did you lot do it?

I used the search first to see if anyone else had asked & they had but it was such a poor quality thread I thought it best to ask it again.

The wife and I used Willwriting Service Limited.

[doodab]

my point being it amuses me that contractors like to be well-paid professionals, yet whine when they need to use the services of well-paid professionals, such as dentists, accountants and lawyers.

Well, yes, but that's because we know what a bunch of amateurish charlatans we are and assume that other well paid professionals are just googling for the answers like what we do.