Will writing advice

Isoei

Hi all. I am considering writing a will. I am in my mid-20s and work a fairly high-risk job, and figure it may be a good idea (or at least that I should look into the process).

I believe my pension provider (Scottish Widows) as well as my workplace offers advice or the facilities for will-writing, but advice on other providers would be appreciated. I have never written one before, so I'm not sure if there's a specific etiquette or of any rules to follow. Experiences and advice is appreciated!

Keep_pedalling

The normal recommendation is to use a local solicitor and unless your estate is a really simple one with no property involved that would be my recommendation. 

elsien

Depending on the nature of your job, you might also want to think about power-of-attorney. In the event that you have an accident and are left incapacitated, you will want someone to manage your financial affairs and potentially also make health and wealth decisions for you. 

Unless your affairs are complicated you can do this yourself online and don’t need a solicitor.

DullGreyGuy

It depends on the complexity of your estate and your wishes plus then how many different scenarios you want to cover off. For example if you want to leave everything to one person but if that person dies before you/at the same time then you leave it to a different person... that sort of thing can be done with the basic create a will from a form website that many of the free "will writing" services are from banks etc. 

Others are more complex, like a friend wants to leave everything to his son not his wife but she'll be able to live in the house for as long as she wishes, unless she remarries, and be able to take certain monies from a trust fund until such time as his son turns 21. That sort of thing you are better paying a local family law solicitor to draft things properly to ensure they work as intended. 

user1977

Probably better to move this to https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/deaths-funerals-probate as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with insurance?

Summersunt

Isoei said:

Hi all. I am considering writing a will. I am in my mid-20s and work a fairly high-risk job, and figure it may be a good idea (or at least that I should look into the process).

I believe my pension provider (Scottish Widows) as well as my workplace offers advice or the facilities for will-writing, but advice on other providers would be appreciated. I have never written one before, so I'm not sure if there's a specific etiquette or of any rules to follow. Experiences and advice is appreciated!

great post.  I'm wanting to go through the same process but it seems a bit of a question about who to select; I particularly like recommended.  I recently heard of a horror story and this was despite the fact that the person had completed his will via a solicitor.