@Morticia … I’m happy to sort out a no frills, no paper trail cremation for you for a small fee. Nobody will attend and nobody will ever find any evidence either. 
You can set a preferred date now if you like. 
1 Like
Mrs d00d plans to scatter my ashes at our favourite spot in Hyde Park. What we own, is jointly owned so we don’t bother with wills.
1 Like
Do you mean that you have joint wills in Germany? I wasn’t aware such a thing existed, but your laws may be different. Here you can always change your will so long as you are deemed to have full mental capacity.
2 Likes
Again I wasn’t aware that such things existed. But sorry it didn’t work out for you in the long run. You could have contested on the basis that his change went against the joint will.
1 Like
Yes, there is but I don’t like it as it indicates a certain suspicion towards the children that they might greedily demand their compulsory share prematurely. It’s called a Berliner Testament /Berlin Will. Other wills can also be changed.
1 Like
I thought I read that in England, if you’re married, there is a strict separation of property during marriage, whereby each spouse retains their own property.
1 Like
I suppose it depends on what sort of a marriage you are in. We’ve been together for 40 odd years and always shared everything.
1 Like
It’s good to have choices. We wanted to do the same but now we’re learning it the hard way that ours are more limited than I thought. Bad luck.
2 Likes
Far too happy and optimistic to think about my demise just yet… 
2 Likes
As with other legal matters, the trouble with inheritance law is that you receive an education only when you’re in the middle of a problem. It’s often then too late to change your choices.
2 Likes
Are you not thinking of having “keep on running” play at your memorial service?
3 Likes
What’s this! Free drinks!
2 Likes
You think? In Yorkshire?
2 Likes
Pint of Theakstons, he’s paying, where’s he gone? Oh he’s no longer with us.
3 Likes
It got complex … mum had always told us that there was a codocil added to protect all four of us.
As it turns out the appended codocil only meant that if they both died within 30 days of each other the joint will stood … after that the survivor had carte blanche to do as they wished. An oversight on mum’s part.
I did take advice but was advised I wouldn’t win … stepkids have no rights in law… all four of us were stepkids. It’s just that one was a lot cleverer and cunning than the rest of us.
Inheritances and wills cause unbelievable bother amongst family members.
3 Likes
No, this one Annie…
4 Likes
Good luck with that d00d…
2 Likes
Good choice, Foxy, it suits you.
2 Likes
Thanks Dachs, and a very happy Christmas to you and yours…
Strange to think that my life has been so ordered over the years, but I’ve never considered a bucket list…My whole life has been my ‘bucket list’ and there are so many loose ends concerning my demise and apart from a will, I will just shuffle away quietly and hope no one notices…
3 Likes
Hi
A word of Caution.
You need to keep checking.
My will was done by a large reputable company who I also appointed as my executors.
Everything legal and stored online, easily accessible and perfectly legal.
It also included a letter of intent to explain why everything was going to my son.
There will be no Inheritance tax to pay, everything done properly.
They were taken over by another UK Company , not an issue.
That UK Company has now been taken over by an American Private Investment Company.
The Will and Letter of Intent are still online.
The issue is release fees for any changes and answering any queries.
Like Vets Bills they have hugely increased.
The Executor fees they charge have increased by 400% as have their additional fees for any queries there may be or even putting the house on the Market.
When you die and you live on your own, the house insurance needs changing, it is unoccupied, the gas, electric and water still needs to be paid and you still need to get the garden looked after to get a good price.
All this is still possible if you have an agreeable Bank, not all are, some only release enough for funeral expenses.
Your money is frozen when you dies and Probate can now take up to a year.
I have a busy month ahead, download the Will and letter of Intent.
Change to new executors, relist it, new witnesses etc etc.
Please take care of things like this.
5 Likes