if you don't have a will can you answer please?

Mojisola

74jax wrote: »

Has anyone heard Martin Lewis on the radio saying you only need a will if you're not married or if you are married and have children you want the money to go to instead????

Hubby has just text saying I can stop asking him to make one now as Martin Lewis has confirmed he doesn't need to make one......... he so has selective hearing at times and I want to prove him wrong..........

It sounds unlikely! Martin was on Radio 5 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/consumer -
approx 23 mins in for Wills.

74jax

Mojisola wrote: »

It sounds unlikely! Martin was on Radio 5 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/consumer -
approx 23 mins in for Wills.

Excellent thank you :beer: I'll have a listen first before i tell him he is soooooooooooo wrong :rotfl:

He Martin had told listeners you only really need on eif your not married or have kids, wait till I get him told.....:T

Seanymph

It strikes me his father advocated responsibility to him, and he is trying to do it to you.

I, STILL, haven't got a husband with a signed will. I've been (alone) and had it drawn up, changed it with him, changed it with him, paid for it - and he still hasn't got it signed.

I remind him, and he's insistent that he 'just forgets' to get it signed - I've asked him if not signing it is making a choice, and would he rather change it. Nope. He 'just forgets'.

So I give up.

Once he's got more than £250,000 in assets I'll worry!

Seanymph

*Does your life insurance count as an asset?

Mojisola

Seanymph wrote: »

It strikes me his father advocated responsibility to him, and he is trying to do it to you.

I, STILL, haven't got a husband with a signed will. I've been (alone) and had it drawn up, changed it with him, changed it with him, paid for it - and he still hasn't got it signed.

I remind him, and he's insistent that he 'just forgets' to get it signed - I've asked him if not signing it is making a choice, and would he rather change it. Nope. He 'just forgets'.

So I give up.

Once he's got more than £250,000 in assets I'll worry!

That will be okay if he dies first - if he's the second to die, will the estate be divided up in a way that he would be happy with?

Seanymph

Nice question - it may be done in a way he is happy with, but not in a way I would be happy with.

If I die my house goes to my kids - he gets everything else, of course if he then dies with no will it all passes down to HIS kids and mine get nothing else.

In the wills (they are reflective, I've signed mine) all the kids get an equal share when the second of us passes.

Blimey - never even thought of that!