Can an Email be used as a Will - for all of Estate

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StingySD said:

buddy9 said:

In Scotland an email does not have the status of a will.

Because the estate includes a house, a Grant of Confirmation is necessary. If there is no surviving spouse, you or a sibling (or both, or all) will require to apply to the sheriff court to be appointed executor dative. And unless the estate is under £36K (which seems unlikely) insurance will be necessary (a bond of caution). And some insurers insist on compulsory engagement of a solicitor.

(Solicitor gave rough cost estimate as a % of the estate - but surely solicitor admin steps dont vary significantly because of estate value. If estate is worth several £250K, surely admin costs will be similar for estates in the same ballpark (£200K, £300K etc...))   

I suspect that - as with things like DB pension transfers - although the admin costs may be much the same whatever the estate value, the indemnity insurance to cover their backs if anything goes wrong is likely to be proportional to the size, hence their billing that way.