I have a confession to make. It’s a biggie, as I have two children, now 19 and 12, and it doesn’t reflect well on me as a parent.

*whispers*

I have never made a will.

I’ve never had any assets you see, so it’s never felt like something I needed to do. This is stupid I know, as I have two children and should I die I have nothing in place in writing to specify what I want to happen to them. I have a life insurance policy and various pension pots too, but at no point have I managed to get everything together in one place and make a proper grown up plan.

Silly isn’t it?

It feels even sillier as I have always had a bit of a reputation in my family as ‘the organised one’, but I fear this is based more on the fact that I used to spend a lot of time colouring in revision timetables than on my ability to manage important things like finances. View Post

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I haven’t.

It’s something I think about quite regularly, but never get as far as actually doing anything about. I know I must,  I know I am a Bad Parent for not having plans in place, but it feels like a bit of a scary thing to do. Firstly it means acknowledging that I’m not actually immortal (whaaat??!), but also it’s dead complicated. Or feels it at least.

To try and inspire me, and to give a bit of a shove to other parents who haven’t got round to it yet, I asked Rebekah Hillman of Hillman Legal Partnerships to put together a few of the basics for me, so it didn’t seem so scary. Here’s what she said… View Post

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