Putting off your Will risks leaving your assets and care of people to chance.   Make or change a Will with proper planning and care to ensure the Will stays entirely valid and cannot fail in whole or in part. 

 

Are you being offered what appears to be a free Will consider what is being asked for in return (nothing is free).  Are your full circumstances being advised on to ensure an entirely valid Will?  If it is a particularly cheap Will how much are the additional clauses which most people inevitably need?   If it is not a standard free of charge Will, do you get passed onto higher priced solicitors or will organisations for expensive clauses?  Look into it carefully.  Will they have your best interests at heart or their own organisation? 

 

The law of succession is complex and the courts are overloaded with cases as a result of problem, failed and contested Wills, hence the program of new regulations currently being drawn up.  Even where organisations have figured out how to work within the rules, do consider that only professionals dealing directly with you, are likely to act like professionals that have your best interests at heart.  A balanced objective view of what you actually need can work out much more cost effective. 

 

Few organisations have put in the kind of effort we have, to find original thorough solutions that take you from the beginning of a solution to the end of one.  We have looked at the real obstalces and problems that you and your family might be facing and are not just trying to sell you a document.

For example, we developed Isobel's Conditions to guide you carefully in making LPAs and developed an Advance Care Plan for your Life Care Planning and to centralise all of your important healthcare wishes and documents for family and healthcare providers to easily access.

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We have also looked into the issue of selling your home to pay for care fees, and can direct you to an appropriate support for that.  We are constantly looking into creating procedures and documents to protect you as you age as we find this is an enormous grey area open to abuse, demonstrated by the overflowing courts. 

 

Nothing replaces good professional & client relationships that have your care and interest at heart.  Whilst a profitable business is essential, if that is all that matters in a service role then it is hardly in the client's best interests.  Supporting your local businesses can protect you.

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Please be aware : is someone else encouraging you to change your Will, even a family member?  If so, you should not unless you have told an independent legal professional like us or a solicitor what you are planning to do and why, or speak to someone else you know such as Age UK, your doctor or a friend.