I'm wondering if anyone can help with this. I am only 23 so don't have many assests yet but I'm a single mum to 9 month old dd. I have had a thought in the back of mind that if something happened to me there would be a nasty legal case over custody of my daughter with my parents and her dad. I would always want her care to go to my parents. How can I insure this? Do I need to write a will, if so how do I go about doing this?
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mumblechum1 ·
04/04/2014 16:42
What would happen depends initially on whether your daughter's dad has parental responsibility; was he named on the birth certificate?
If there was a dispute then the court would be asked to make a decision on what was in your daughter's best interest. If you have appointed a guardian in your will, this would be a clear message but if your ex has parental responsibility and there was a dispute, the court would not be bound by the appointment of the trustee.
It's always a good idea to write a will because apart from the guardianship aspect, the chances are that by the time you die (statistically when you're in your eighties 
), you will have accumulated some assets.
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