From experience writing Wills I have found two types of situation where people might want to benefit a charity in their Will. I have detailed these below: 1) People with little or no family. We all know someone, with no child, perhaps, who has never married. They may have little contact with any family member. Often, they will know of family members. These may be cousins or nephews or nieces, h...

This is a good question. Below I have given five of the reasons: 1) You get to decide yourself exactly what you want by giving your instructions. 2) Funerals tend to be cheaper when bought before the time of need. 3) You save your family having to pay. 4) If you have any unusual requests these can be sorted out in advance. 5) You have peace of mind everything will be sorted out without any ...

Brian writes. “Sadly, my partner of 30 years has recently died. We owned our bungalow tenants in common as we both put money in for the deposit when we bought it. Unknown to me, my partner had made a Will, leaving everything to her only daughter. Her daughter has now approached me for her half share of the value of the bungalow. Do I have to sell it and give her the money?” This is a complicate...

When writing Wills, it is not unusual to give details of music you would like. Traditionally, this might have been hymns that could have been sung to a piano or organ, but as most people don’t seem to like singing, there has been a move away from live music, to the playing of pre-recorded tracks on a CD or electronic device. The Coop keep details of choices and they advise “My Way” by Frank Sin...

At Kendal Wills, we have further enhanced our service to help protect you and our staff during the pandemic. For those customers who want to instruct us to write a Will, but understandably, wish to minimise contact, we have developed a secure online instruction form. The form will enable you to provide the basic information we’d need to create your draft Will(s). It is fairly straight forwa...