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My husband and I own our house both in its entirety, meaning if I die he automatically owns it all and vice versa. Can we make any safer provisions especially if one of us goes into care to safeguard the house for the other partner if necessary?

Where do you keep your will?

Our children were young when we wrote our will. Now 34 & 32 with a grandaughter in the frame, is it worth updating?

How do one go about setting up a trust fund for their children to benefit from the estate. Do one need to appoint a guardian as the children are very young and the partner is not not reliable and well.

Is the Will' of a Dementia Patient valid ?

Why are wills allowed to be contested ?

When I update my will I will go to a Solicitors who does it for free but put the cost it would have been to a cancer charity or whatever. I would also leave a note for somebody to pass somes mines to a charity rather than stipulating it in a will.

I have an old will but would like to update it. I don't want to use the same solicitor as last time but would the new solicitor inform the old one to destroy first will or is that up to me to inform them?

Do people ever, as such, update a will, or is what is referred to as updating a will in fact discarding the old will and replacing it with a brand new will, notwithstanding that some of the text might be a direct copy of what was in the original will?

How does one arrange things in relation to a pet? Legal processing of a will can be slow yet a pet needs looking after promptly, quite possibly with funding.

We did a will quite a few years ago with a solicitor and it was horrible thinking through different scenarios regarding our children and their children (who they have not yet had - but imagining scenarios where a child passes away before a grandchild for example). Is it really necessary to go into that level of depth as it was really rather awful and emotionally upsetting to be thinking about it. Or is there a simpler way of trying to express a fair sharing out without having to think through all these horrible scenarios. It has really put me off revisiting the will to even check if it needs updating.

Another question is whether it is ever worth contesting a will e.g. when siblings had been promised equal shares but then upon reading the will it turns out that 2 siblings have been left everything and the other 2 nothing because the two who everything was left to were living close by and in a position to influence the person at the end of their life.

can my family request who is in my will?

Both the persons who witnessed my will have since died, do I need to write a new one?

Do I even need to have a will or will everything automatically go to my only child?

Is there a way for an executor to take any action before probate is granted by the High Court and thus before a court order document is available to show the authority of the executor to act? For example if a water pipe bursts in the house, or if a dog needs looking after, or if children need looking after or medical treatment, or making a claim on house insurance if something like storm damage happens, or finding out about the house insurance and renewing it. necessary.

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..., or finding out about the house insurance and renewing it when necessary.

Me and husband don't have wills. Am I wrong in thinking that if one of us dies, the other inherits everything and when both of us die our house will automatically be shared between our two adult children?

I don't now how detailed or not to be. Does everything have to be itemised? Should I leave bequests as a % and leave it to the executor to sell everything and send £s? Should I leave everything (unitemised) to one person? I get so stressed I haven't made a will,m but know that this is irresponsible and makes more work for someone else too.

How can you ensure your wishes are met in your will?

If i dont have a will wouldnt my husband automatically get everything anyway?

Is the family home included in the threshold for inheritance tax ?

I have a Will and my daughter has power of attorney. When we did this, I encouraged her to make a Will too but she said 'Plenty of time for that'. However, she's a single parent with young children. There's no contact with the father. I'm concerned about what would happen to them if she were to die. As things stand, I assume that grandparents wouldn't have a say?

What happens if a will says that everything is to be divided equally between, let's say, two adult children, but one of those children has died before the parent but no new will has been written to address this?
Would the children of that adult child get the money instead, or would it all go to the one adult child who is still alive?

My question: When will the experts be answering the questions?

It is nearly the end of the month.
Following the poor handling of the Spire Health Care ‘sponsored discussion’ I was told by HQ that things would be done differently.