No one likes thinking about their own mortality, but pre-planning your affairs in the event of your incapacity and death can remove a lot of stress from your family at a very difficult time. Try as you might, you can’t avoid death, people hope to die in bed after a full life, your peace made, your affairs in order and surrounded by your loved ones. But, as various motorway pile-ups, rail crashes, airline disasters and terminal illnesses cruelly demonstrate, death can be premature, brutal, swift and completely unexpected. Your Will and Power of Attorney are the most important documents you will ever prepare because it spares your loved ones a skip load of trauma, grief and uncertainty.
If it is so important, why does most of the public not even know what a Power of Attorney is and 70% of the adult population does not have a Will and of the 3 out of 10 that do, the Law Society says 52% are badly out of date? Well….. there are a few reasons but our actual experience over the last 25 years is people are just simply not aware of the consequences and therefore our whole strategy is to explain exactly how the law treats families who don’t take suitable action. We have been writing Wills since 1992 and have many thousands of satisfied clients, who have the peace of mind, knowing should the unexpected happen, their family is as well prepared, as they possibly could be.
Planning for one’s own passing is nothing new; the Vikings prepared longboats which were set alight and floated out to sea, sailors and pirates were said to have worn gold earrings so there was sufficient value in gold to pay for a dignified funeral. The Egyptians spent most of their time here on earth preparing for the next life by building pyramids and tombs. We hope you will agree with us, far from being morbid, pre-arranging your affairs in the event of your death or incapacity is a very sensible thing to do.