Another Diy Will Q? (probably)

SuzieSue

OP, I'll pm you a template of the will my father used as you father's affairs are so simple. It was just written on a Word document and was fine when he died.

forgotmyname

Yeah there is less than £10,000 and with the changes i can see his savings decrease over time also. So there maybe very little anyway.

He is paying towards a funeral plan. Which is just the basics. So if anything like the last one it may cost another £1000 anyway.

Revoking any previous wills a good idea. I have the old one anyway.
Belts and braces approach.

How many executors can/would you name. One, Two or more?

One daughter named on the bank account with a card. Another daughter has the card. So requires 2 of them to take money out with it.

One with the card and one with the pin.

The problem is its approaching that time of year when his wife passed away so its not a good subject to start talking about.

May have to wait until later in the year.

Thanks for the help.

Any suggestions on the furniture though if the family dont want it? Sell it, Give it away?

Thanks

Peanut2013

Sorry to steal this but were looking at wills and have no assets. However we do want to name guardians for our LO and am looking at setting up life insurance to go to the guardians to help look after LO.

Could this be done DIY? The guardians have agreed, we just want it in writing so it doesn't get fought against if the worst was to happen.

prettyfires

Mojisola wrote: »

I'm not sure you're right here.

There should be a sentence in every will revoking any previous wills. As long as the later will has been signed and witnessed correctly, the earlier will will fail.

Thank you , but not quite true...
If the other person has had the earlier will Confirmed, you have to go to court with the later Will and have the decision overturned by a judge - you can't just turn up at the office and say ' here is a later will'.
To get it to court costs a LOT of money , I know I am in the middle of this process.
So therefore if you have will and you get it 'probated' first, you 'win'- unless the other person has a lot of money to fight it, then the earlier will continue to stand.
The Police won't intervene because it is 'civil'. The only way to get the law to deal with it is to spend the money on getting it to court.
However if you know another way I would be very interested !!

SuzieSue

prettyfires wrote: »

To get it to court costs a LOT of money , I know I am in the middle of this process.

Sorry to hear that. How much does it cost? Are we talking about thousands or tens of thousands?

jackyann

I have used lawpack - when I did mine it cost £12, maybe a little more now. The template makes everything clear.
If I were in your shoes, unless you are very hard up, I think I'd pay lawpack, draw it up, call in 2 neighbours and give it to him to sign

prettyfires

SuzieSue wrote: »

Sorry to hear that. How much does it cost? Are we talking about thousands or tens of thousands?

Tens of thousands ...
:eek:
And although we have an interim interdict on the estate to stop him from putting it into his own name / spending it.he is breaching it, spending it and ignoring the law
And the Police will not get involved because it is a 'civil' case....
I have to pay to go to court to have him face a judge for breaching the interdict.....at a cost of tens of thousands..a separate court case to the other one.....

SuzieSue

prettyfires wrote: »

Tens of thousands ...
:eek:
And although we have an interim interdict on the estate to stop him from putting it into his own name / spending it.he is breaching it, spending it and ignoring the law
And the Police will not get involved because it is a 'civil' case....
I have to pay to go to court to have him face a judge for breaching the interdict.....at a cost of tens of thousands..a separate court case to the other one.....

What a nightmare. I have thought for a long time that the way wills are dealt with just relies on people being honest. There was another thread on here where someone found out that that one of their relatives had been stealing money from their mother for years and there was nothing they could do about it.

prettyfires

SuzieSue wrote: »

What a nightmare. I have thought for a long time that the way wills are dealt with just relies on people being honest. There was another thread on here where someone found out that that one of their relatives had been stealing money from their mother for years and there was nothing they could do about it.

Yes.
In other areas of law, 'dishonesty' has effective remedies and can carry 'criminal' charges.
I have contacted my local MSP and Westminster - it's about time we had more protection.
Also as more and more people marry again, children lose their 'original' family and 'legal rights' they have with their original family. Stepchildren are discriminated against.
Thank you.

SuzieSue

prettyfires wrote: »

Yes.
In other areas of law, 'dishonesty' has effective remedies and can carry 'criminal' charges.
I have contacted my local MSP and Westminster - it's about time we had more protection.
Also as more and more people marry again, children lose their 'original' family and 'legal rights' they have with their original family. Stepchildren are discriminated against.
Thank you.

Yes, I remember reading a newspaper article about a famous author who did not inherit anything from his father as his father had re-married and so everything went to his new wife. The author was sure that his father would have provided for him in a will but as no will was ever discovered (there was nothing to stop the new wife from destroying it) he couldn't prove anything. I think that he or someone he knows has set up a service for storing wills so that this can't happen to anyone else.