Get a DIY will in 5 easy steps
Step 1. Write down all the people that will be mentioned in your will. This will include anyone receiving a gift, executors, trustees, guardians for your children and anyone who may inherit from your residury estate.
Step 2. Write in order who should get what. Put gifts first, followed by people who will receive the rest of your estate, followed by people who will receive a share if the other people die.
Step 3. Think about other key items such as how you want to be buried, who looks after your children if you die and what powers you want to give your trustees and executors etc.
Step 4. Make sure that you have the right clauses to put into your will to make sure it complies with accepted legal principles, does not put your will at risk of being challenged by anyone who may be dependant on you, ex spouses etc, and make sure that the people who are to receive your estate are going to receive the right gifts in the right proportions.
Step 5. Write your will, have it witnessed in the correct manner by the right people without putting your gifts at risk, and then store the will safely (maybe under the bed?).
This is what a will writer does week in week out (except for storing the will under their bed), so if you feel unsure about any of these steps, maybe it would save some time (and lots of problems later) by getting them to do your will instead? Remember that if you really can't afford a profesionally written will, Oliver's Wills Ltd is perhaps the only will writer in the UK that has the following offer: if you can't afford our prices, tell us what you can afford, and we will let you know if this is still possible. For example, we may be able to lower our price if we are seeing someone else in your area and we can see you on the way. Where there's a will there's a way.
Step 2. Write in order who should get what. Put gifts first, followed by people who will receive the rest of your estate, followed by people who will receive a share if the other people die.
Step 3. Think about other key items such as how you want to be buried, who looks after your children if you die and what powers you want to give your trustees and executors etc.
Step 4. Make sure that you have the right clauses to put into your will to make sure it complies with accepted legal principles, does not put your will at risk of being challenged by anyone who may be dependant on you, ex spouses etc, and make sure that the people who are to receive your estate are going to receive the right gifts in the right proportions.
Step 5. Write your will, have it witnessed in the correct manner by the right people without putting your gifts at risk, and then store the will safely (maybe under the bed?).
This is what a will writer does week in week out (except for storing the will under their bed), so if you feel unsure about any of these steps, maybe it would save some time (and lots of problems later) by getting them to do your will instead? Remember that if you really can't afford a profesionally written will, Oliver's Wills Ltd is perhaps the only will writer in the UK that has the following offer: if you can't afford our prices, tell us what you can afford, and we will let you know if this is still possible. For example, we may be able to lower our price if we are seeing someone else in your area and we can see you on the way. Where there's a will there's a way.