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Who's in your will?

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JorisBonson · 07/06/2023 16:15

Very grateful this board was created today as I have to update my will.

As it stands, DH will get the lot if I go before him. If be goes before me, or we go together, my (also childfree) brother will get everything. If God forbid they both go before me I'll likely leave it all the charity.

I also want to leave around 10% of my (measley) estate to my best friend, just to give her tiny nest egg.

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Stripedbag101 · 09/06/2023 22:27

My sister is also my best friend - everything Goes to her. The house, pensions cash etc.

if we both go at the same time (helicopter crash over Madrid😂) it goes to her husband and kids.

my parents are I. Their seventies and are Comfortable so they aren’t I. The will .

QwestSprout · 09/06/2023 22:50

I have no blood relatives (and tbh it wouldn't matter if I did).
Our mirror wills are set up such that all passes to the other, once both are dead 95% of our estate goes to charity (environmental/wildlife). Token amount to a friend abroad and the remainder to the niblings.

CrepuscularCritter · 09/06/2023 23:04

DH
Godchildren
Children of family members
Charities

NCNC4 · 10/06/2023 01:11

I’m child-free and unmarried but share my estate with a long-term partner. We have mirror wills so the other inherits everything if one of us dies. If we die at the same time, our estate will be split amongst the niblings… with each side of the family getting 50%. As there are three kids on his side and two on mine, his three get a smaller percentage each than my two. We discussed at length if it was fairer this way or fairer to split equally between five kids, but I didn’t think it was fair for his side to inherit 60%, especially as the majority of our estate comes from my higher earnings.

We also have a gentleman’s agreement that whoever outlives the other won’t disinherit the others’ niblings, using the value of the estate at the point of death. So if my partner were to die tomorrow and I then won £5m next week, my partner’s niblings would get a share of the estate as it’s worth today and none of any future income. I trust my partner to honour this and I will do the same.

I have to say that this would have been far less complicated if we’d had a child together.

EmpressaurusOfCats · 10/06/2023 08:30

This thread’s made me consider that there might actually not be that much left after paying for whatever care I need in old age. Not going to worry about that too much yet though.

tinselvestsparklepants · 10/06/2023 16:35

I'm leaving 10k each to young people I know then the rest to a Care Leavers' charity. They don't have a bank of mum and dad so I can be that for someone.

HeidiUpTheMountain · 10/06/2023 17:53

tinselvestsparklepants · 10/06/2023 16:35

I'm leaving 10k each to young people I know then the rest to a Care Leavers' charity. They don't have a bank of mum and dad so I can be that for someone.

I really love this idea.

AnnaMagnani · 25/06/2023 19:39

Mirror wills with DH. For the survivor everything goes to his neices and nephews.

Only if I am the survivor, I am totally changing that straight away and leaving it to VAWG charities and a donkey sanctuary.

thecatneuterer · 25/06/2023 21:02

Entire estate to the charity I'm involved with.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 25/06/2023 22:50

tinselvestsparklepants · 10/06/2023 16:35

I'm leaving 10k each to young people I know then the rest to a Care Leavers' charity. They don't have a bank of mum and dad so I can be that for someone.

That's lovely.

IBetGordonRamsayDoesntHaveTheseProblems · 27/06/2023 01:33

No will so everything would go to my parents - which makes most sense as I don't have siblings and DF would take the dog.

Will obviously have to reassess when my parents inevitably shuffle off the mortal coil.

Catsmere · 29/06/2023 04:04

My mother, my sister and then the RSPCA (Australia). There's no other family except my brother and I haven't spoken to him in forty years, I don't even know where he lives.

Theoldgreygoose · 29/06/2023 05:45

My exDH but I will have to think about it sometime in the future. No siblings and DPs both gone.

ChaChaRealSmooth · 29/06/2023 08:59

I don’t have one but it will go to DH, if I go first, if not it’ll be split between our niece and nephew with a portion going to a dog rescue.

theemmadilemma · 29/06/2023 13:16

DH and I need to update ours as our previous ones were nulled by our marriage.

We've talked a lot about this. On my side, only one of my two sisters (half) has children and they already recieve a huge portion of my mothers considerable estate, so I don't feel the need to provide for them.

I considered my best friends children, but they will actually be fairly well provided for now too.

DH has a half brother who will inherit very well on this mothers side, as well as a portion of fathers, so he was out. DH's sister now has a child and his sister will not inherit anything from their mothers side, so our intention is that on both our deaths are remaining estate is passed to her child.

theemmadilemma · 29/06/2023 13:18

*our ffs

Oblahbla · 29/06/2023 14:03

To DH unless he goes before me, then split between my DSis and DH's eldest bro. Failing that, split between my 2 nephews and DH's niece. He has 2 other nieces but we've never met them and their father rarely bothers with DH - it'll probably cause a shit storm but one I won't be around to witness.

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