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Solicitors were involved in the design of this site and your Will document is generated from the same database of words and phrases used by lawyers up and down the UK.
During the design process, every conceivable permutation of Will which can be produced from our Intelligent Willwriting Composer © was ‘pre-checked’.

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As an extra safeguard for 100% peace of mind, every Will purchased from this site is individually checked by a professionally qualified Willwriter. This service also extends to all Lasting Powers of Attorney purchased.

Our Professional Checking Service takes the form of an email that you will receive within 2 working days of the purchase of your documents. This email will EITHER give your documents the ‘all clear’ (in which case you can use the versions you downloaded at purchase time) OR suggest alterations to be made – with a direct facility to contact us if you require further clarification.

As an optional extra, if you have purchased our Printing & Binding Service, we don’t suggest alterations to be made. Instead, we make them for you, and generate and email (and later post) to you the corrected documents.
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Will and Lasting Power of Attorney Jargon explained

You may have heard numerous words or phrases relating to the subject of Wills and/or Lasting Powers of Attorney. The following list should hopefully explain what they all mean.

Wherever you see a word or phrase in italics on this page, you'll find an explanation for it in the list - which is in alphabetical order.

If you have any questions, or there is a term that you cannot see on the list, please do not hesitate to contact us - we'll be happy to help.
 

Attorney:

A person appointed by you in a Lasting Power of Attorney to look after your Affairs and/or Personal Welfare if you become unable to do so yourself.
If you do not have a Lasting Power of Attorney and you become unable to look after yourself, then your relatives have to apply to the Court of Protection to have somebody appointed - who will almost certainly be somebody you don't know and will almost certainly charge for their services. What's more, the process of appointing somebody can take up to a year and cost around £1,000.
It is for this reason that everybody who makes a Will at our site is also asked if they would like to make a Lasting Power of Attorney.

Beneficiary:

Any person or organisation (e.g. a Charity) that you leave a legacy, and/or all or part of your Residuary Estate, in your Will.

 

Civil Partners:

Two people of the same sex who have undergone a so-called ‘gay marriage’ since the ‘Civil Partnership Act’ was passed in 2004.

 

Codicil:

To change an existing Will you can write a document called a ‘codicil’ describing the changes to be made to the Will. The original Will document, plus the ‘codicil’, then comprise the new Will.
You can write as many ‘codicils’ as you like, but as you can imagine things can soon get messy with so many documents to look after.
As re-writes to your Will at our website are free, it makes more sense to simply amend your Will online, generate the revised document, and print/sign/witness it - a process that automatically revokes your previous Will.
This is a major benefit of our service.

 

Discretionary Trust

This is an entire subject in itself and we advise you to read our page on Discretionary Trust Wills.

 

Executors

The people you choose to make your Will happen. Their job is to obtain probate, pay any debts you may have, distribute any gifts/legacies you have left in the Will and then distribute your Residuary Estate to your beneficiaries.

 

Funeral arrangements:

Directions you can give in your Will regarding your wishes such as details of your burial, cremation, etc. These are not legally binding on your Executors unless you forbid cremation. Our Wills do, however, authorise your Executors to use funds from your Estate to pay for your funeral - this is the important issue.

 

Guardian:

A person with legal control or responsibility for a child under 18 when nobody with parental responsibility remains alive or able/willing to act. Your Will allows you to legally appoint Guardians: you simply name them on the online form, and we generate the legal wording.

 

Inheritance Tax:

We have a special page here dedicated to this subject.

 

Intestate:

When someone dies without making a Will, they are said to have died ‘intestate’.

 

In Trust:

In a Will made at our site, if you leave a legacy or any part of your Estate to somebody under 18 (or some other age you specify - e.g. 25) then what you leave to them is automatically held in Trust by your Executors until they reach the age at which they can inherit it. Your Executors are given powers in the Will to allow them to 'apply' some or all of the inheritance towards the 'Education, Maintenance, and benefit' of the child.

 

Joint Tenants:

If you and one or more other people own a property together, then you will own it either as Joint Tenants or as Tenants in Common.
Please click here for an explanation of what these two terms mean, the difference between them, and a description of the service we offer for converting to Tenants in Common.

 

Lasting Power of
Attorney:

There are TWO types of Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA):-
One where you appoint one or more attorneys to look after your Property & Affairs should you become unable to do so yourself, and one where you appoint one or more attorneys to look after your Personal Welfare (i.e. take decisions about how you are looked after, where you live, medication you are given, etc.) should you become unable to do so yourself. Click here for more details.

 

Legacy:

A gift in a Will – for example a specific item, (sometimes called a ‘Specific Legacy’) or a gift of money (sometimes called a ‘Pecuniary Legacy’) or a gift of a house or property, etc.

 

Returning Customers:

This is not a legal term, but an explanation of the facility that you will see on the right-hand side of our Home Page.
Once you have drafted or paid for a Will and/or Lasting Power of Attorney at our website, you automatically become a 'Member' of our service and you can then check or amend your documents and download any previous documents by clicking on this part of our Home Page and entering your email address and password. If you have lost - or never received - your password then don't worry: once you've clicked on 'Returning Customers' you will see a facility that allows you to get your password emailed to you.

 

Obtaining probate:

After you have died, your Executors must take your Will to the nearest Probate Office (which can be found in the Yellow Pages) and apply for Probate. At the successful conclusion of the process, your Executors are given an official document called a ‘Grant of Representation’. This effectively makes them the legal owners of your Estate (e.g. they can legally access your bank accounts) and enables them to distribute it.
ALL Will packages purchased from tenminutewill.co.uk include a free comprehensive document for you to give to your Executors explaining how to go about obtaining probate.
What's more, if you take out our Document Storage Service, you and your Executors have access to a FREE Probate Helpline as soon as you've made your Will.

 

Parental
Responsibility:

Unless she has it removed by a court, a child's mother has parental responsibility. So (if he was married to her at the time, or if he successfully applies for it) does the father. Your Will allows you to appoint Guardians who automatically have legal responsibility for any child for whom you have parental responsibility, should you die and nobody with parental responsibility remains alive.

 

Reading of the Will

This is something that happens on TV and in films only and is not a necessary process. See Obtaining Probate above.

 

Residuary Estate

What is left of your Estate after the deduction of inheritance tax and debts, the expenses of administration (i.e. expenses incurred by your Executors in obtaining probate and then distributing your Estate), the cost of your funeral, and after the distribution of any gifts/legacies you have specified in your Will.

 

Tenants in Common:

If you and one or more other people own a property together, then you will own it either as Joint Tenants or as Tenants in Common.
Please click here for an explanation of what these two terms mean, the difference between them, and a description of the service we offer for converting to Tenants in Common.

 

Testator:

(or testatrix if female) This is the legal term for the person who has made the Will - i.e. you.

 

Witness:

To make your Will legal, it must be signed by you in the presence of two witnesses, who must not only see you sign it but also be able to testify (if ever required) that you understood its contents and were of sound mind.
A witness cannot be a beneficiary of the Will. If this 'rule' is broken, the Will remains legally valid but the witness loses all of his/her entitlement.
Every Will purchased from our site includes a detailed Instructions Document explaining exactly how to carry out the signing and witnessing process.

 

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