Unsigned will

[breathe21]

My uncle has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, his first wife died many years ago and they have 1 grown up son. uncle re married over 20 years ago and his wife has 2 grown up daughters. Uncle and son fell out years ago, uncle made a will around 15 yrs ago and everything was to be left to son. Property and money was his before he married second wife. Now he is changing his will so everything goes to 1 of his second wifes daughters but nothing to other daughter as she fleeced him out of thousands of pounds several years ago, again wife to remain in house until she dies. He has given this daughter a large cheque just to 'empty one bank account', which the solicitor who is doing the latest will is aware of and quite happy with. The solicitor spoke with uncle on the phone yesterday and uncle told him to now go ahead with the will as planned, the solicitor is now drafting it out and sending it to uncle to sign. But what happens if uncle dies before signing the new will?

[tonywiltshire]

Do not worry barmaid, I have been saying the same sort of thing for many years and no one takes any notice, people still write their own wills and make mistakes.

[Buenchico]

Fred seems to have been watching too many old movies if he's expecting to se a reference to 'being of sound mind' in a will. I've run a will-writing business, I've read plenty of books on the subject of wills (by eminent lawyers) and I've researched many wills for local and family history projects. I've never seen such a reference, which is entirely meaningless anyway!

[Barmaid]

lol, I haven't either Chris. One of the funniest homemade wills I read was this

"No flowers, no fuss, any old box will do, just make perfectly sure that I am dead. I leave everything to ***** who I also appoint as executors".

Still not as good as "All to mother" - which caused a shed load of litigation.

[tonywiltshire]

“All to Mother “ The problem was he referred to his Wife as Mother, so whom did he mean his Wife or his Mother?

[FredPuli43]

It was a joke, Buenchico. (I'm counsel, now retired. And, of course, I did not write my own will)