Writing a Will is an important Financial Planning step that everyone should carry out before it’s too late.
Of course knowing when is too late is difficult, if not impossible, to predict.
By creating a Will, you avoid the value of your estate being passed to those chosen by the government, a process known as dying intestate.
You also prevent a great deal of stress and turmoil for those you love, who will struggle and sometimes fight to understand your wishes in life once you have died.
If you need another reason for creating a Will, there is one coming up shortly.
This November sees solicitors across the country offer their Will writing services in return for a charitable donation.
Will Aid offers the opportunity for people to make a quality basic Will with a local participating solicitor in return for a donation to good causes.
The suggested donation is £90 for a single basic Will.
Over the past 25 years, Will Aid solicitors and their clients have contributed £13.6 million in donations to charities and during the same period £95m has been promised as gifts in Wills to charity, making Will Aid the UK’s most successful charity will-writing scheme.
Making a Will isn’t particularly difficult or time consuming.
You can find details of the participating Will Aid solicitors online from 2nd September 2013 at www.willaid.org.uk.
In our experience, these solicitors tend to get booked up quickly, so if you need to construct a Will or update your existing Will, get it done early.
