vickster
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Whose widow? Or are you thinking of yourselfThe danger is that your widow will sell your bikes for what you said you'd paid for them.
Whose widow? Or are you thinking of yourselfThe danger is that your widow will sell your bikes for what you said you'd paid for them.
That's handy cos you probably don't have anyone to leave it toI’ve got now't to leave
We did ours after our son was born, as we were quite adamant about who should not care for him if we both died...
I've been through the probate process twice, first time via solicitors and it was a pain, the second time I did it all myself as executor. Again I would stipulate that this is far easier for non-complex scenarios but the process was far easier than I expected.
well you won't want mine when you see them, bloody horrible things! all sheep are come to that! you will never be able to catch them and they WILL escape and they will fall down dead from one second to the next. THEY ARE SHEEP!Precisely. It would just go to your parents to deal with
Can I have the sheep, fantastic beasts!
I didn't worry about much of the stuff. My lucky brother or whoever can deal with the contents of the house. I have the bikes, a car and a reasonably valuable watch (in need of a new battery ). It was I guess that, a dozen cash gifts and the residual estate to brotherWell done @vickster I did mine years ago, really need to make a new one because I've acquired more stuff now, also there are less people to leave it too
I think engaging a lawyer for the will and to be your executive would take the strain off your brother.I need to get it witnessed, two folk from work will do it I'm sure. Fairly simple, couple of hours work if that
Oh yes I have two friends who agreed to be executors. Don't need lawyers to do. My brother is older than me, so potentially none will fall to him. If not, he gets everything other than the cash, bikes and watch. I've left him the car, or whatever car I happen to haveI think engaging a lawyer for the will and to be your executive would take the strain off your brother.
Maggots, scabies....Precisely. It would just go to your parents to deal with
Can I have the sheep, fantastic beasts!
Can I have the sheep, fantastic beasts!
I think engaging a lawyer for the will and to be your executive would take the strain off your brother.
Well, the lawyer should have a fee chart that you could look at and periodically review in line with the complication of your affairs.The easiest, and arguably best course is to appoint whoever's getting the lion's share to be executor(s). It is then perfectly OK for them to pay a lawyer to sort it out paid for out of the estate if it's onerous. If you appoint a lawyer to be the executor, you've handed over control to someone who can then charge what he likes out the estate - with no one supervising or able to sack them if they're doing a poor job or taking the mickey.
Well, the lawyer should have a fee chart that you could look at and periodically review in line with the complication of your affairs.
Also employing a lawyer would avoid family squabbling over money, makes things simpler for family living abroad, no out of the blue demands from the taxman either.