Writing a will is one of the key things you can do to make sure that what you want to happen after you die

actually does happen. But it can be expensive and that puts some people off, understandably.

But today I want to talk about why it could be money well spent.

Hi and welcome back to another five minute Friday great to have you with me

so I want to talk about why you should never ever do a

DIY will in my not so humble opinion so let's put five minutes on the clock

down here say a quick thank you to my friends at 7 Investment

Management down here for continuing to sponsor the show and let's crack on. First

thing we need to understand is that legalese is there for a reason. Have

you ever actually read a will that's been written by a solicitor, they're full of all kinds of

strange phrases like Residuary Estate and Held Upon Trust For and stuff like that.

And it's easy for people to dismiss this as legalese, a sort of fancy language which is only

there to help solicitors charge more for their work.

But actually this seemingly complex language serves a purpose.

What this language does is it removes all doubt

about what your intentions are for the will.

It does that by calling on centuries of precedent, wills that have been written like that,

which have been tested in law in some way, and the definitions of those words have held up.

So in using those words, you know that they will work.

Essentially, if you say this, it actually means this, and it can't really be questioned.

And that's good because you're no longer around to

ask what you actually meant when you said X YZ so clarity in the language is

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