I need to write my Will - help needed please

Personally, I’d do wills and start PoAs with a local solicitor - ask friends etc for recommendation if you don’t have one.

If you leave a donation to a charity of your choice, you could have your will done free by a solicitor who participates in this service.
www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/free-cheap-wills/

You could try asking St Anthony of Padua first to help you find the old one. 🙂

Dear St Anthony, full of grace
Lead me to its hiding place.

Your Will may have been registered with the National Will Register you can check on their website or if you prefer there is a helpline telephone number.

Mirror Wills are not a good idea. They are not legally binding on the surviving spouse who can make a new Will redirecting assets elsewhere.

Whoever you use, speak to a professional.

We have LPOAs and are in the process of updating our wills as our circumstances have changed.

A distant relative’s farher used a will writer and it has taken over twelve years to sort out the will due to the incompetence of the will writer.

You have just missed out on Free Wills Month in March but there should be another one in October.
It is always best to use a solicitor, not a Will Writer, or you could end up paying far more to a solicitor to sort out any problems arising from your will.

I had reason to speak to a legal team recently re a will and I was also told that all wills are registered with the National Wills Register so I would try there first before you hunt further, nothing more frustating that looking for something you can't find as I well know!

Very good point Graphite re mirror wills, I have often thought that.

Use professional help.

My BIL was under the impression that he and his wife had mirror Wills leaving everything to each other.

She passed away a few years ago and he discovered she had left £100,000 to their 2 adult children which was money her Mother had left her. He was upset that she had not told him this and also that it felt like she did not trust him to provide for them. His Will leaves everything to them - house, car, savings etc so they would not have lost out. They have already raced through all the money on holidays, cars etc and are cadging from him again.

On a radio phone in the expert said you can see if a will has been registered on www.certainty.co.uk

‘Graphite

Mirror Wills are not a good idea. They are not legally binding on the surviving spouse who can make a new Will redirecting assets elsewhere.

Whoever you use, speak to a professional’

I agree, it have a friend whose father remarried at a very old age. She was a family friend who my friend had known all her life so she was very happy for them. However, when her father died she discovered that he’d changed his will and left everything to his second wife. My friend was a bit upset but not too worried at the time as she felt that his widow would do the right thing towards her and her brother when the time came. However, she discovered on her stepmother’s death that she’d left everything to her own children. This just goes to show, even if you trust your spouse to do the right thing after you’ve gone, I guess you never know.