Will To Win

To many people, making a Will has overtones of mortality and imminent demise. Documents which begin, in heavy black Gothic lettering: "LAST Will and Testament" tend not to lift the gloom. Not until it has actually proved to be the last, however, should you consider a Will to be your final word on the subject. Making Wills is a sensible habit people should adopt early in their careers and they should review with their solicitors, at regular intervals probably not exceeding five years, whether their Wills continue to reflect their wishes and whether any new legislation may need to be considered.

The advantages of dying with a Will, rather than without one, are probably clear enough (though even that can’t be relied upon - the solicitor author of a once leading textbook on Wills managed to die intestate). Rarely, however, does the first Will prove also to be the last - we at Lee Bolton & Lee cannot readily call to mind the last occasion upon which a client left our offices having made