Writing a will and all that jazz

[absolutezero0k]

I'm sure this will have been covered before but I've searched and can't get any relevant threads up.

DH and I are well overdue on writing our wills so getting the ball rolling on that is this week's task. We'll be drawing them up with a solicitor as our circumstances aren't quite straightforward (dependent kids, non-dependent adult kids, complicated house ownership).

My questions are, what do we need to think about before we speak the solicitors? And what else do we need to think about in addition to the legal stuff. I'd really like a tick list or workbook to work through, so if anyone can recommend any websites for death planning that would be really helpful.

By using a good solicitor or someone whose job it is to write wills, then they will be used to asking questions about scenarios we hadn't thought about

That’s a really good point. When I gave some money to one of my children towards their first flat, the solicitor drawing up the paper work thought of all sorts of things that would never have crossed my mind. Eg that they were already married but hadn’t told me !!

For my will , she asked about things like - if my child predeceased me, should the money go to their children, if they had them ? Also to think through the implications if they got divorced.