Will Aid - Act Now to Get a Free Will by Helping Others

Increasing wealth, mainly on account of rising house prices, has led to an ever-larger number of families having wealth sufficient to make a will necessary in order to ensure that the family assets pass to the person or persons chosen by the deceased.

It is commonly thought that the spouse of a deceased person automatically inherits the whole estate, but this is not true. If a married person dies without making a will, the intestacy laws are such that the spouse will only inherit 200,000 when there are no children or 125,000 when there are children. Civil partners are treated in the same way as married persons. Where a couple cohabit, a surviving partner can be left completely unprotected if their partner dies without having made a will.

In order to make sure that your estate is distributed in accordance with your wishes, it is vital that you make a will.

Having a will drawn up professionally by a solicitor is not expensive. However, for the month of November it can be done in exchange for a charitable donation, with no fee being payable to the firm. Will Aid is a scheme whereby we draft your will for no fee, asking only that you make a contribution to one or more of the Will Aid charities.

The Will Aid Charities are:
  • Action Aid
  • The British Red Cross
  • Christian Aid
  • Help the Aged
  • The NSPCC
  • Save the Children
  • SCIAF
  • Sight Savers International
  • TROCAIRE

For more information on these charities, see the Will Aid website.

Will Aid is a great opportunity to help others and at the same time make sure your estate goes where you want it to go.

To find out more about what will happen to your estate if you do not make a will, see the intestacy rules.

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