DH dragging his feet re a new will.

My brother recently updated his will. He set up a power of attorney as well. Something that’s advisable to have in place if the need arises at some point. It doesn’t become active until the person becomes mentally incapacitated. His solicitor did the will update free of charge along with the POA.

Marmardoit, I have sent a PM.

We have 5 sons. Rewritten will in last few years. All our boys are executors. We didn't want any upset between them. As it happens sons 3 and 5 would be best at the job! When my sister and I were executors to my parents wills I did most of the practical stuff as I was on the spot. My sister was just sent things to sign. We employed a solicitor. It was straightforward.

I recently amended my will. My solicitor had retired and the firm changed hands. I gave my copy of my will, which had the previous legal firm's heading, to the new solicitor and he made contact and located the original. So no need for you to search.

Thank for the replies.

I will certainly get on with finding the original wills.

Our wills will be straight forward. Just split between the DC. The only problem could be that ours are at different stages in their lives. The older ones have their own homes and young families. The youngest two are single and still in their early 20s. One is renting and the other still in the family home. Maybe there is scope for wrangling.

More reason to get things sorted.

We recently had new wills drawn up for a similar reason - one of our named executors had died and we were pretty certain the remaining one would now just hand it over to a company who would do the admin for a hefty percentage of the estate!

It’s a straightforward will and we were advised by our solicitor to name just two of our children as executors as they’d have to take time off work etc to attend any appointments together. Fortunately they get on well so we just picked the eldest two and explained the situation to them all.

The advice we were given was always to have children and a solicitor as executors, so much easier for the legal bits, and to sort out any wrangling discussion between siblings.

I imagine if you google the name of the solicitors on your will, or look them up at companies house, you will find out if they are still active, or who took over? Good luck with using all your wiles on DH!