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How To Update Your Will Without A Solicitor
Ensuring your Will is being regularly updated to reflect your ever changing life circumstances is absolutely vital to make sure your Estate ends up being distributed precisely as you wish. When a Will hasn’t been updated for some time and there are significant changes to the Estate, this can present a potential issue when it …
How Many Wills Can You Have?
In Australia, we are proud to be multicultural. Indeed, our population has roots and relatives from countries all over the globe and many Australia’s reside internationally, which brings us to the topic at hand. Whilst you cannot have more than one valid Australian Will at a time, you may be able to have more than …
How Long Do Wills Take to Process?
Dying without a Will can lead to many issues, such as burdening your grieving family with added costs and leaving your assets to your next of kin (or to the government if you have no family members) rather than the persons you may wish to leave your estate to. While neither of these are favourable …
What Happens to Your Cryptocurrency or Digital Assets When You Die?
While cryptocurrency has become a popular source of digital currency, ensuring it is kept safe, during your lifetime and after you pass away, is important to protecting your Estate assets. Hence, your Will should outline how you want your Executor to distribute your digital assets. This requires ensuring your Executor can obtain the private keys …
How and Where to Store Your Will in Australia?
It can seem like so much work to go through the steps of writing your Will executing it appropriately – but you're not done quite yet. The next step is where to safely store it. Part of the paradox of a Will is that it is an important, often confidential legal document that must be …
Do I Need a Solicitor to Make a Will?
If your situation is straight forward you may not need a solicitor to make a Will – in the modern-day and age, there are far easier options available. However, if you have a large or complex estate or require a testamentary trust you will need to consult a lawyer. With online Wills platforms, you can …
What Are the Main Laws around Digital Wills?
Drafting and executing your Will shouldn’t be a laborious or expensive process. That’s why Your Wills streamlines the creation of your Will digitally and helps you to understand the main laws around digital Wills. Digital Wills are Wills which are created electronically and stored in a digital format, allowing the Will maker to easily make …
10 Mistakes to Avoid when Writing your Will
When it comes to writing your Will, it is important to do so at any life stage, but it is even more crucial to avoid drafting mistakes that can prove costly or distressing for your family and friends. How to “write” the wrongs of making your Will? Discover the top 10 mistakes to avoid when …
The Ins and Outs of Changing Your Will
Your Will is your decision. If you change your mind, you can change your Will too. In fact, you have the right to change your Will as many times as you see fit. What about your existing Will? Though you can take the option to amend a Will, usually, the easiest option is to simply create a new …
Executor Responsibilities – Learn About Them Here
A lot of responsibility rests on the shoulders of the Executor of a Will. As Executor, you have been entrusted with the task of carrying out the wishes of the Will, in the way that the deceased intended. Through a Will, the deceased can play a final role in looking after the people who mattered …