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Hello peeps,


Having written my will, I'm now trying to decide how to store it. Any advice? Options I'm considering include lodging the document:1. with a solicitor, 2. with a bank, 3. with a will-writing company, 4. in a safe place at home. I'll obviously also send a copy to the executor. I've had the will drafted by a will-writing company who are now offering me extra services, namely secure storage of the doc, unlimited updates to it, and as much help as necessary to the executor administering the thing at some point in the future - distant, I hope :-). I'm tempted by this offer, but they're charging ?2000 for it. That might sound a lot, but apparently compared with the percentage that banks take for administering a will, it's not (depending on the size of the estate, that is).


If you've given this some thought, while drafting a will or administering/executing one, I'd love to hear from you. PM if you'd prefer. I'm just wondering whether there's a common approach, or something I've missed.


Ta!

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Burbage

Burbage

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One thing your will-writing service won't have told you is that the Probate Service will store it for you for a flat, one-off fee of ?20.


A helpful leaflet is here.


As, once you've passed over, any executor will have to deal with the Probate Service in any case, there'll be no need for them to have remember where it was you told them that you might have put it, chase down long-retired solicitors, fossick through the Panamanian wreckage of fly-by-night will-writing companies, hunt for the keys to safe-deposit boxes, search through biscuit tins, deconstruct mattresses or prise up any floorboards.

goosey-goosey

goosey-goosey

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Thanks, Burbage. No, the will writer neglected to tell me about that rather handy service...


Thanks, Bob and S'boy. If you could just certify the backup and security features of your respective biscuit tins, I will ensure your proposals become part of the tender process. :-)

red devil

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I can thoroughly recommend *Bob*'s Will Keeping service!

Once he showed me his extensive biscuit tin collection, I knew he was the Will keeper for me!!

A bog standard Jacob's Crackers tin simply wouldn't have cut the mustard for my Will, no siree, but once I saw Bob's vintage Family Circle Queen's Silver Jubilee Limited Edition biscuit tin, I knew that was the biscuit tin for me!!!

Not only that, *Bob* said I could keep the unpaid parking tickets, condoms, and his Gran's false teeth that were still in the tin...how's that for service?!!!!

Nothing was too much trouble for *Bob*, and all delivered with a genuine smile, he even cleaned up afterwards, it was like he'd never been here!!!!!

I am a genuine poster!!!!!!

*Bob*

*Bob*

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*Bob*?s Wills started out in 1993 with a single tin of Rovers and a desire to succeed. ?I remember our first client as if it were yesterday,? said *Bob*, speaking to me from his fur-lined ivory tower in East Dulwich. ?Persuading them to part with a stack of cash for a service they can more-or-less get elsewhere for virtually nothing was a real buzz.?


They now have sixteen tins operating in South East London, Bromley - and Panama.



*Bob*?s Wills - ?Where There?s A Will - There?s Our Wage?

earlydoors

earlydoors

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You started out in 1993 !

I remember when East Dulwich had perfectly good local Will storage specialists who would store Wills in superior and more down to earth snuff boxes (forgive the pun) and not these fancy blow in Will storage experts who store them in ponsey biscuit tins.

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