19 May 2021
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Trying to make your own ‘DIY Will’ is a risky business. Barnard Castle Solicitors Tilly Bailey & Irvine explain why you should only trust a firm of legal experts for the task of making a Will.
Are you thinking it’s time to start drafting a Will or Family Trust? Maybe an estate plan? The first step after making that decision is to find your solicitor.
At this stage, with your family at helm of these important decisions, it is something that cannot be cobbled together lightly. People have been prone to letting Will Writers prepare their Wills and also assist with other arrangements for their personal affairs.
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Hattie Garlick with husband Tom and their children
Credit: Tony Buckingham
My seven-year-old daughter is trying on my clothes, twirling in the mirror. She is tripping over impossibly long skirts, shuffling in clownish shoes and dripping in dangling necklaces.
“Can I have these when you die?” she asks, unaware that a) none of it is worth a bean and b) this is not a particularly jolly subject for conversation in the tail end of a global pandemic.
Trying to make your own ‘DIY Will’ is a risky business. Barnard Castle Solicitors Tilly Bailey & Irvine explain why you should only trust a firm of legal experts for the task of making a Will.
Are you thinking it’s time to start drafting a Will or Family Trust? Maybe an estate plan? The first step after making that decision is to find your solicitor.
At this stage, with your family at helm of these important decisions, it is something that cannot be cobbled together lightly. People have been prone to letting Will Writers prepare their Wills and also assist with other arrangements for their personal affairs.
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The Probate Practitioner’s Handbook is now 30 years old and in its ninth edition. It is a mark of its utility that my copy is already home to a lot of sticky notes, flagging a useful section here or the answer to a particularly knotty problem there.
The handbook is helpfully divided into three principal sections (plus appendices), underlining how our work is very much a blend of the law, our professional obligations and day-to-day practicalities.
There are also key extracts from the Law Society Wills and Inheritance Protocol. In this age of specialisation, it is an important reminder that estate administration goes in tandem with the making of wills.