Wills

When to make a Will - Make sure your wishes are kept true...

Making a Will enables you to:

• Ensure the assets in your estate pass to the people you would like to receive them.
• Leave your assets to your partner. Without a Will a partner will have to take legal action in order to receive any benefit from your  estate.
• Leave property to friends or to a charity.
• Reduce or extinguish your tax liabilities in certain circumstances.
• Specify who you want to manage your affairs after your death  (your Executors).
• Appoint a guardian to bring up your children.

We have put together several downloadable documents to provide you with more information on making a Will:

• Download our brochure When to make a Will here
• What happens if you die without leaving a Will?  Download our Intestacy Law flow chart here
• In order that we may prepare a Will which suits your circumstances we have put together a Will instruction questionnaire which can be downloaded here.
• Read our briefing: Inheritance Tax transferrable nil rate band
• Inheritance Tax nil rate band discretionary will trust provisions:  the advantages and disadvantages of keeping them in your Wills. 

The brochures are Adobe Acrobat files, if you do not have the Free software installed on your computer, please follow this link to download the latest version.

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