It is National Write a Will Week this week and, according to sources quoted by the Daily Telegraph, about 30 million people in Britain don’t have a will. That equates to about 70% of the population.
Everyone should have a will and they should have a will that has been written by a solicitor. There are numerous alternative options to using a solicitor to make a will. None of them are at all satisfactory.
It is possible to buy a will making kit or use a will writer. The difficulty in using these options is that the likelihood is that you or the will writer have little or no legal experience. In addition, will writers are unregulated and uninsured.
Another option would be to rely on the rules of intestacy. Those are the rules that are laid down to govern somebody’s estate when they die if they haven’t left a will. The rules very often do not work in a way that you would expect them to.
There is no alternative to having your will drafted by a solicitor that specialises in the field. Badly drawn wills can often cause more trouble than they are worth and, in the long run, can be far more expensive and cause no end of hurt. There is no substitute to getting a properly drafted will put in place.
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