People making a Will have to balance up competing interests in the light of their own family situations and resources. For example:

• The private client team regularly encounter all these dilemmas. We can assist you in spotting the problems and suggest ways to resolve them.
• You may have concerns about the stability of your children's marriages and possible claims by a son-in-law or daughter-in-law
• Your children may be very young and estate funds may need to be invested for their benefit for many years.
• You may have doubts about the financial stability of your children in which case they may need protection against dissipating the funds.
• You may be concerned that family assets will be lost if the surviving spouse remarries.
• The surviving spouse may have very substantial resources of their own.
• You may want to leave legacies to particular people to whom you feel grateful.
• You may want your personal belongings divided between the family in a particular way.
• You may have aged parents or other relatives for whom you need to provide.
• There may be children from a former marriage.
• The private client team regularly encounter all these dilemmas.

We can assist you in spotting the problems and suggest ways to resolve them.

• You may have concerns about the stability of your children's marriages and possible claims by a son-in-law or daughter-in-law.
• Your children may be very young and estate funds may need to be invested for their benefit for many years.
• You may have doubts about the financial stability of your children in which case they may need protection against dissipating the funds.
• You may be concerned that family assets will be lost if the surviving spouse remarries.
• The surviving spouse may have very substantial resources of their own.
• You may want to leave legacies to particular people to whom you feel grateful.
• You may want your personal belongings divided between the family in a particular way.
• You may have aged parents or other relatives for whom you need to provide.
• There may be children from a former marriage.