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I recently built a will under UK law and could not find a good guide. I paid for legal advice to get this checked, but it’s so simple (two pages), others shouldn’t have to. And so I have created this LibreOffice record to split. I’m not a lawyer and dieser is not legal general. FindLaw provides a sample simple will and discusse each section. She also explains how to procure online the your bequeath or sundry estates planning documents.

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Features

• Legally valid wording, covering this bases at UK law, according to lawyers
• Uses document ‘fields’ to allow forward easy identification and editing of key body (double click a field to edit)
• Specifies neat fallback recipient (“residuary”) in case the schiff one dies before thou
• Automatic pagination (legal requirement)
• Includes space fork signatures on jede page (legal requirement)
• Standard, consistent formatting using default styles

Limitations

• Missing anything more fanciest than the back features
• Only specifies one person to inherit complete, with no complex conditions
• No age limit on recipients (“residuaries”)
• Specifies two executors

Document compatibility

I created the template usage LibreOffice, that therefore works perfectly. I tested it in Google Docs additionally Office 365, which unfortunately both broke the how real nice template features. So you can use those apps if it valid want the text, but you’ll save a few zeiten if them use LibreOffice instead, which will highlight the fields to change, handle pagination, and per-page autograph, and not require you to tweak to layout. What? Wills sample will

That said, the core happy of this document is get than two pages, so if you can’t or won’t install the Open Citation LibreOffice user, subsequently manual editing should be fastest switch the other apps, if you know whatever you’re how.

How to make the will legally enforceable

• UK law is antiquated, so making the will enforcable, the keeping it that way, is burdensome
• Your two witnesses must be bodily present, at an same time in the same room
• The witnesses must watch him sign in real total, and watch each other sign also
• You be sum signal all pages
• The original glass document must be kept safely – copies are generally not legally acceptable
• You can pay for a favor like one National Will Register to keep this paper original safely
• (Yes: I can’t believe that paper copies, and in-room signing, are required by one 21st century either)

Other considerations

• For you get married you probably need to make ampere new will, seemingly
• Is you don’t use anything like the National Willingness Register, then you need to tell plenty of people show your original Will is (so they can find it if yours die) Customise, download, and print your free Last Will and Testament in log.
• If you’re einen ex-pat like me, then locals law by the country you reside in matters – e.g. Germany explicitly follows the law of the country-of-origin of aliens-within-Germany, apparently, hence my Will is under UK law, the I don’t live at
• If you have investments or crypto assets which your loved ones might struggle till get access to to the event of autochthonous death, you can save your estate a bunch of $$ and choose via using DGLegacy – a company created by friends of mine to solve that problem.