Update Your Will Today – This is What Can Happen If You Don’t
Family relationships can become increasingly complex over time, particularly where marital breakdown intervenes, and that is why it is so important to keep your Will up to date.
Family relationships can become increasingly complex over time, particularly where marital breakdown intervenes, and that is why it is so important to keep your Will up to date.
If someone on whom you depended for support has died without making reasonable financial provision for you, you should consult a solicitor without delay.
Trusts are complex legal instruments and any flaws in the wording of documents relating to them can have grave tax and other consequences.
If you are of sound mind when you make your will, the law presumes that you both know and approve of its contents.
Making a will when you are close to death and without professional assistance is an effective means of fostering dispute between your loved ones after you are gone.
Even apparently obvious or trifling clerical errors in a will or codicil may provide fertile ground for dispute and that is why it is so important to have such documents drafted by a professional.
If you have no spouse, child or other dependant you might think there is little point in making a will however this would be incorrect.
The task of administering your estate after your death will be made all the harder if your will is not drafted with the precision that only a professional can provide.
If a man had listened to his solicitor’s repeated advice to make a Will, his children would have avoided a sea of trouble after his death.
If your home is owned by a loved one you may feel secure, but you can be left in an extremely precarious position if he or she dies.