If children have special care needs, an appropriate Discretionary Trust could avoid loss of State benefits on inheriting your estate.

Ensure your own children benefit from your share of your home if you pre-decease and your spouse re-marries and has more children.

Always appoint charities as your final beneficiaries, to avoid your estate being claimed by the Government.

Divorce does not invalidate your Will.

A beneficiary or their spouse should not be a witness to a Will, or they will disinherit themselves.

Without a Will, even grandparents have NO automatic Legal Guardianship of their orphaned grandchildren.

Without a Will, spouses and civil partners are NOT automatically entitled to all of your estate on death.

If a couple dies simultaneously, the elder is deemed to have died first – s184 Law of Property Act 1925, leaving only the younger spouse’s family to inherit.

Without a Will, the Government could inherit your estate if you die with no surviving traceable relatives.

A properly worded Will can ensure that half the value of your home is protected against Local Authority care home fees.