We have heard stories recently about cold-callers knocking on doors and offer low-cost Wills, and possibly other legal services. Inevitably, they target older people.

If you make a Will, you control what happens to your money and belongings after you die. If you don’t make a Will, a complicated and inflexible set of rules will be used to determine what happens on your death. These are called the “Intestacy Rules”, and there have been recent changes.

People are sometimes superstitious about making Wills. They think that they might die sooner! But none of us knows when we are going to die, and it’s advisable to make a Will for the following reasons…

Last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced sweeping changes to the inheritance tax system. It is now one year on and the changes have been enshrined by Royal Assent.

This article gives a brief explanation of inheritance tax and the current position…