Will Writing Regulation may ahppen but DIY Wills are still OK?

Writing of wills has been something of a free for all in the last twenty years or so. It is not a regulated activity so anyone can do it and it is also quite legal to make DIY Wills.

You may have picked up on the fact that regulation of Will writing is actively being considered. This followed a secret shopper session where a number of solicitors and Will writers were given a secret test run.

The results showed about the same level of mistakes in both the Will writers and solicitors.

So is that proof that writing your own Will is easy or easily subject to mistake?

Now learn two things from this.

• Not even people who have had some training get it right all the time.
• If they do they will normally have professional indemnity insurance to cover the losses made by such a mistake.

There is no such thing in DIY Wills. You write your own Will and you get it wrong your loved ones get to be less than complimentary about your parsimony.