Binding of wills

loulou41

What do you do if your will is more than one page. Do they need to be bound professionally? I am reading confliction advice on the internet. I cannot remember but with enduring power of attorney I read the pages should be stapled together. Thanks

Yorkshireman99

loulou41 wrote: »

What do you do if your will is more than one page. Do they need to be bound professionally? I am reading confliction advice on the internet. I cannot remember but with enduring power of attorney I read the pages should be stapled together. Thanks

Mine done by a solicitor is on a single sheet of A3 folded and bound. I initialled each page. DIYing a will is a bad idea.

SevenOfNine

Ours was done by the solicitor, quite a few A4 pages. I suppose I'd describe it as posh stapling in the top left corner - but unlike a staple it's impossible to remove & replace without damage to the paperwork (not that I've tried), so more secure than a staple.

It's sort of a small round metal ring punched through all the documents, grips the pages together at the back but not in a way so I could prise it open & they've stuck a red sticker thing over the front.

Yours sounds like a DiY Will, sometimes impossible to persuade people not to do that, but if you MUST then I doubt any Will should have loose pages flapping around. I'd go with stapling it & initial each page, though how it's presented might be the least of your beneficiaries worries.

pphillips

I would go into any large stationary shop and pay a few quid to get the document permanently bound together.

BobQ

pphillips wrote: »

I would go into any large stationary shop and pay a few quid to get the document permanently bound together.

The important thing is not to leave space on a page where additional text can be typed. Binding is irrelevant, you need to initial each page and sign in full on the last. Then keep a copy in a different place

I have seen a will in which there was a panel on each page for the testator to sign next to the page number.

pphillips

BobQ wrote: »

The important thing is not to leave space on a page where additional text can be typed. Binding is irrelevant, you need to initial each page and sign in full on the last. Then keep a copy in a different place

I have seen a will in which there was a panel on each page for the testator to sign next to the page number.

I don't think binding is irrelevant - it's just common sense that when you have an very important legal document, you don't want any of the pages to get separated and lost.