Making a will via will writer or solicitor and can I keep will in my home?

Keep_pedalling

RAS said:

Even when the firm still exists and they have the will in storage, you can find them reluctant to release it. They are hoping you don't have a copy and don't know their ex-colleague was a personal executor not the firm. And you'll roll over and they'll get £xxxxx to administer, plus the conveyancing fees if there's a house.

How many people actually appoint a professional executors? We haven’t and our solicitor did not even suggest it. 

RAS

Keep_pedalling said:

RAS said:

Even when the firm still exists and they have the will in storage, you can find them reluctant to release it. They are hoping you don't have a copy and don't know their ex-colleague was a personal executor not the firm. And you'll roll over and they'll get £xxxxx to administer, plus the conveyancing fees if there's a house.

How many people actually appoint a professional executors? We haven’t and our solicitor did not even suggest it. 

Didn't stop the lawyers trying to prevent us accessing the original will. 

Not common now but when I first joined MSE an awful lot of people had appointed their bank as executors. And it was not unusual for wills done by one bank to distribute different classes of assets to different people, say house to wife, investments to children, certain saving to GCs, residual to wife. Except the investments were long gone and the savings reduced etc, or the house sold.

Savvy_Sue

It's not inevitable that the solicitors holding a will make it difficult to collect it, but I agree that lodging it with HMCTS resolves that issue!