Will made years ago help

Marcon

doodling said:

Hi,

poseidon1 said:

Alternatively a simple codicil to your will replacing your parents with your son as executor of your Will is possible.

However, with over 50 years having elapsed since making your last will, I would think a review of his and your circumstances is long overdue and a new will drafted to reflect yours and his wishes going forward.

A good opportunity for you and he to sit down with a solicitor and have a open dialogue.

Whilst I don't disagree that a codicil.is possible, we live in a world where word processors exist and hence codicils are generally an anachronism.  Anyone competent to produce a codicil and get it correctly signed is almost certainty competent to re-type a will, changing one name, and get it correctly signed.

The words 'wildly optimistic' spring all too readily to mind...

doodling

Hi,

Marcon said:

doodling said:

Hi,

poseidon1 said:

Alternatively a simple codicil to your will replacing your parents with your son as executor of your Will is possible.

However, with over 50 years having elapsed since making your last will, I would think a review of his and your circumstances is long overdue and a new will drafted to reflect yours and his wishes going forward.

A good opportunity for you and he to sit down with a solicitor and have a open dialogue.

Whilst I don't disagree that a codicil.is possible, we live in a world where word processors exist and hence codicils are generally an anachronism.  Anyone competent to produce a codicil and get it correctly signed is almost certainty competent to re-type a will, changing one name, and get it correctly signed.

The words 'wildly optimistic' spring all too readily to mind...

I think you are (wildly?) optimistic as to how easy codicils are to get right...

I was offering an opinion on the relative ease, not the absolute.

If I wanted a codicil (well, as I've made clear I wouldn't, but if I did) I would consult a solicitor, not attempt it myself, for exactly the same reasons that I wouldn't attempt a will myself.