to be confused about making OUR will when we have kids from previous marriages...

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Posting here for traffic and keen for advice....

DP and I been together 2.5yrs. Both have kids from prev (him 2, me 1).

As we are both divorced we want to sort our wills out.

We are just so confused about how to do it!

At the moment the house we live in is in my name but we will be getting a joint mortgage soon. It's likely the equity will be around £180K mine and £100K his so we always said we would have that written in... But what about the rest of the will? How do we manage the kids?

Would be interested to see how others have done it.

We are 35 and 40 and kids are still young so not planning on going anywhere but just want to make sure all the paperwork is taken care of just in case!

thanks

Also think of pension beneficiaries. We need to get round to making wills but I have made my kids my pension beneficiaries so they'll get my death grant which is a large amount of money until we get round to sorting things out (which I must do soon). My husband's pension is also divided equally between his kids.

It isn't as simple as splitting 5 ways - a solicitor will sort all the what ifs difficult questions about your children's children.

You need mumblechum. She is often on the Legal board. She runs a will writing service and seems to know her stuff. Worth posting there or having this thread moved.