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Writing a will does not have to be costly or time consuming. A professionally drafted will can offer financial safety and security to your loved ones, ensuring that your wishes are carried out after your death. It can also save a great deal of expense – significantly minimising the possibility of future disputes and achieving considerable savings in Inheritance Tax.

Our specialist team of Wills and Probate lawyers provide impartial and independent advice covering a range of services including:

  • Court of Protection
  • Estates
  • Intestacy
  • Lasting Powers of Attorney
  • Trusts

If you’re looking for legal advice on any aspect of making, amending or challenging a will, take a look at some of the questions our lawyers have already answered to help you along the way.

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Wills and Probate Questions

How soon after someone’s death is it feasible to contact the local probate registry for a copy of the will?

My ex-husband bought a house with his new partner. They are tenants in common, with equal shares, and my ex-husband made a will leaving his share to our son. My ex and his partner have since got married: does he have to make a new will in order to leave his half to my son, and what would happen if he didn’t?

I am likely to receive some money from the estate of a relative who died without making a will. Am I entitled to contact the solicitor dealing with the probate work for updates on progress and the likely financial outcome? The older relatives have barred me from contacting him. Do I have a right to do so?

My mother-in-law made a will many years ago leaving everything to my wife, and naming her and a local solicitor as joint executors. She has very little to leave, and since the will is very simple I wondered whether it would be possible for my wife to become sole executor. How would she go about it?

I am in an unhappy marriage. My elderly mother will leave me a considerable sum of money when she dies, and I would like to know whether my husband would be able to claim half my inheritance should we get divorced after her death. Is there any way this money could be protected so my son and I would not be penniless should the marriage break down?

My son-in-law died recently. I understand that my granddaughter may be entitled to his share of the estate left by her paternal grandfather when he dies. How would my granddaughter, or my daughter on her behalf, go about making such a claim following his death?

A few months ago I got a firm to draw up wills for my wife and I by post. Although the firm made a point of telling us the importance of spelling names and addresses correctly I find my wife’s first name is spelt wrong on about ten occasions. I wrote to them about this but received no reply. Will this cause any problems when the wills take effect?

My father divorced my mother and remarried. He died some years ago, and my stepmother has died recently. My father always said that he’d left a will, but we never heard anything about it, and I wondered whether my brother and I might be entitled to anything now. Our stepmother did have two sons of her own.

I understand that a judge has the power to change the contents of a will where a son or daughter has been left out owing to a family feud. What steps can the maker of a will take to ensure that their wishes are carried out?

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