Flowchart Will

Malthusian

nom_de_plume wrote: »

When solicitors do flow charts.....

Seems pretty clear to me. When people say they don't understand legalese, unless English is their second language it's similar to when people say they can't do maths as if they expect to be praised for it.

The trust is technically superfluous because as we all know the beneficiaries could get their Inheritance at 18 regardless, same if they'd been left it directly, but the beneficiaries may reach age 21 before they learn about Saunders v Vautier.

SevenOfNine

Primrose wrote: »

We have to update our wills which haven,t been done for a number of years, during which time ai have read of some pretty shocking cases of charities bullying executors regarding donations left to charities so this is a matter aid wish to review. I think maybe a letter of wishes might be a better way of handling things.
Last time Inuodated my will I wrote very simple but detailed instructions on what I wanted to happen. By the time the solicitor has drafted it my wishes seemed almost unintelligible!

A letter of wishes to accompany a Will shouldn't really contain 'instructions' as such given that they are not legal documents, therefore do not have to be complied with.

We were advised to write one to be kept with our Wills, but as YM99 has said, these were advised merely to explain why we had made certain decisions within our Wills, to indicate our funeral preferences etc (& completely optional), nothing more.

As for your wishes seeming unintelligible, nothing to do with a lack of understanding of the English language I think, the legal profession have their own reasons for a distinct lack of any form of punctuation! Presumably a misplaced comma or full stop may throw a different light on a meaning (?), so sometimes trying to read & make sense of a whole paragraphs without drawing breath can be somewhat challenging.