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Protect The Little Ones In Your Will
November 28, 2009
If you don’t write a last will and testament, then who determines who receives what? Things wont proceed how you would have liked. To be sure your desires are adhered to, you need to construct a will.
If you pass away without without writing your last will and testament it’s the law that dictates how your assets is distributed. The intestacy rules will be used and it may not be what you’d have hoped or wanted.
If you are currently married or have a civil partner but no children and your property is worth a specific threshold or under then your legal partner would receive the total of the estate including any life insurance cover . If the assets is worth above this figure and you have existing relatives, your spouse will still get this figure, plus half of the remainder. There is an order in which family will inherit, with existing parents situated at the head of the list, followed by siblings and so on.
If you have a lawful partner and offspring then your partner would gain the set amount as above and half of the excess. The descendants would inherit half of the amount over the threshold immediately and the remaining 50% on the death of your partner.
Should you have children but no legal partner, then your children would share the inheritance. This could not be at all what you’d have hoped. You might have a partner who relies on you and who you would have wished to get at least part of your assets, who would get nothing.
To remove all potential doubt about your property, regardless of how straightforward it may seem, you should construct a last will and testament. There are various ways to do this. You could construct it on your own or hire a professional will service or a solicitor.
Many people construct their own last will and testament, generally using a template which you can acquire from stationers. Be wary if you proceed along this route – it’s surprisingly simple to make a mistake and you could potentially find it invalid. The expense of having a will drawn up, especially a comparatively simple one, is not exorbitant and you can be sure that your desires will be realised.
A skilled will writer or a solicitor will be experienced with dealing with all forms of queries and will be able to aid you. You might have questions about starting trusts and perhaps inheritance tax.
Having constructed your last will and testament, it’s a wise decision to review it on occasion, as circumstances change. If you decide to alter it, then it is probably better to revoke your existing one and have it re-written. If the alterations are small, it could be simpler to construct a codicil to make a part of the will and to be read in partnership with it. Any codicil will have to be written in the same way as the will in regards to signatures and witnesses.
Please be aware that any medical insurance cover will terminate on the death of the will holder and no value will be attributed to It in the will.
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