will advice please

[meerkatsandkookaburras]

i wonder if anyone might be able to help me with quite a simple (i think) question?!

in a will can you write a list of people you know may contest your will and want to acknowledge exist essentially but state there is no way you want them to have anything?? also is it commonplace if you wish to ensure certain people will not be able to have anything to get a medical done to say that youre not insane etc and mentally fit or would someone choose to do this??

essentially my dad has chose to not leave me anything in his will, he has happily told me this and also told me he has written a list of people he wishes to ensure cant have anything and therefore im on that list, he has also said that hes had a medical done to make sure it cant be contested. i thought we were wuite close so now im just wondering if all this sounds true as i know there is nothing i can do about it however if it is true i think i will distance myself from him due to this a bit and due to the fact he callously told me that.

also he mentioned something about needing to list 6 people for something about contacts??? i never had to do that on my will whats that all about?!?!

thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Yes you can name people in your will and state you are deliberately not giving them anything. I did this in the past after I had split from xh, but we were not yet divorced.

He probably told you this, so that you wouldn't be 'surprised' after he died. Has he told you who he is leaving the money to and why?

Yes, he can specify anyone he likes to not receive anything either with or without a reason. I write quite a lot of wills and often if someone doesn't want, say, their ne'er do well brother to get anything they'll have an exclusion clause, usually just saying that the reason they're specifically excluded is that the testator and the brother are estranged.

Unless you're currently financially dependent on your father it's extremely unlikely that you'd succeed if you contested the will.