Is it 100% legal

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My husband and I have drawn up mirror wills, all the legal jargon etc. We've had them witnessed and signed. I'm just asking is this perfectly legal and will it be seen as such when the time comes, or does a solicitor have to be involved? In the event of our death it leaves our home to be split between my two adult kids and his two adult kids.

Perfectly legal, just remember that after one person has died, the remaining partner can write a new will and cut out the children of the other, or if the partner remarries the will is void.

If you want to be sure your kids inherit, leave something directly to them. Otherwise if you die first, your partner could change his will or remarry and your kids get nothing. The only way to guarantee your own kids inheritance is to leave it to them directly.

It's legal but it's not enduring. Unless you mean everything is being split between the four DC on the first death, whoever dies second can change it to leave everything to their own DC or a new partner (and you'd be surprised how often that happens).

There is no requirement to have a solicitor involved. However, solicitors who deal in this area of law will tell you that they make a lot of money from do-it-yourself wills which the deceased thought were watertight but actually had problems. Also, as the previous poster says, mirror wills do not prevent the surviving spouse from changing their will or invalidating it by remarrying and forgetting to make a new will.