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Executors
These are the people that you nominate to carry out your wishes contained in your Will.
You can nominate between 1 and 4 Executors or professional Executors such as a Trust Corporation or Probate Solicitors. If you nominate a person or persons then you don’t have to worry as they can appoint a professional to act on their behalf as Executor to do the whole job or to do any element of the job...
Guardians
If you have children under the age of 18 (Minors) then it is necessary for your to nominate Guardians for those children. Such Guardians will be the people tasked with looking after your minor children in the event of both natural parents being deceased.
Typically, it’s best to nominate trusted friends or family who are the same generation as yourselves. Although it’s common for a young...
Witnesses
When your Will has been written you need to make it legal by a process called “Attestation” which means getting it signed, dated and witnessed correctly.
To do this you need two witnesses who cannot be beneficiaries in your will or married to any beneficiaries or related to any beneficiaries, they must also be over 18 and not blind as they need to watch you signing your will.
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