Calling all parents - Have you written a will?

Newborn To Teen and Everything Inbetween

If not, you must listen to this podcast!

We spoke to Bik-ki Wong and Helen Thompson who are both partners at Myerson solicitors

Bik-ki is responsible for wills, trust and probate and Helen heads up the department that looks after contesting wills.

We talked to Bik-ki about:

• What happens if you don’t write a will? Doesn’t it just go to my husband / wife? Not necessarily, Bik-ki explained. And what happens if you aren’t married?
• How many people we know who don’t have a will and don’t want to think about it.
• The fact that a will doesn’t have to be expensive; you can have a simple one drawn up and there are charities that might write a simple one for you.
• What happens if you both die and don’t have a will or are a sole / single parent?
• Appointing a guardian, how you do this and the implications.
• Some real-life case studies of families who realised they needed to make a will for example because of illness or divorce.
• How often you should review your will once it has been written.
• Some of the terminology and responsibilities. The role of an Executor, Trustee, Guardian, how many you should have and things to consider when choosing them.
• How having family planning meetings around writing wills can be helpful.
• 3 things that Bik-Ki would say to someone who doesn't have a will.

And we talked to Helen about:

What happens when...

• a will is challenged and the associated issues and conflicts.
• there isn’t a will and the intestacy rules that come in to play where the law decides what happens.
• for example, a child isn’t provided for in a will because a will hasn’t been updated.
• Considerations for blended families, step families, solo parents, single parents etc.

3 things to consider when looking at issues with a will.

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More information about Myerson can be found here - https://www.myerson.co.uk/

Contact Myerson about making a will here

Government information on making a will: https://www.gov.uk/make-will

Read our bereavement blogs here including a blog from Bik-Ki about writing a will

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