Making an urgent will is sometimes necessary due to sudden changes in circumstances, such as a serious illness, upcoming surgery, or other unforeseen events that require immediate action to ensure your wishes are legally documented. In these situations, it’s crucial to have a solicitor who can act quickly and efficiently to ensure your will is created and executed without delay.
Scenarios Where an Urgent Will May Be Required
- Serious illness or terminal diagnosis: If someone’s health deteriorates rapidly, an urgent will ensures their final wishes are legally recorded.
- Imminent surgery: Some individuals prefer to have their will in place before undergoing major surgery.
- Travel: Last-minute travel, particularly for extended periods or to locations with potential risks, can prompt the need for a will.
- Unforeseen circumstances: Sudden changes in family circumstances, such as divorce, birth of a child, or financial changes, may create the need for an urgent will.
How Our Solicitors Can Assist You
At Cribbin & Co Solicitors, we understand that time-sensitive situations require prompt and professional legal support.
Why Choose Us for Urgent Wills?
We understand the importance of time in urgent situations and are equipped to draft and execute wills as quickly as needed, without compromising on legal accuracy.
Our team has extensive experience in private client law, including wills, estate planning, and probate, ensuring you receive expert advice tailored to your needs.
We will approach urgent situations with sensitivity and understanding, ensuring you feel supported during a potentially stressful time.
At Cribbin & Co Solicitors, we are committed to ensuring your final wishes are protected, even in the most urgent circumstances. If you require an urgent will, contact us today, and we will act quickly to provide the legal support you need.
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How we can help
– Fast Response: If you need a will urgently, you can contact us via phone, email, or our website. Our solicitors will prioritise your case and aim to respond immediately to discuss your needs.
– Initial Consultation: In this first contact, we’ll assess the urgency of the situation and gather essential information about your wishes regarding your estate, beneficiaries, executors, and any other specific instructions.
– Flexible Arrangements: We can arrange to meet you wherever is most convenient—whether at our office, at your home, in the hospital, or another location. If time is extremely limited, we may even conduct consultations over the phone or via video call.
– Quick Instruction Gathering: During the consultation, we will carefully and efficiently gather your instructions, covering all key aspects such as distribution of assets, guardianship of minor children, funeral wishes, and appointing executors.
– Expert Drafting: Our experienced solicitors will immediately begin drafting your will, ensuring all legal requirements are met and your wishes are clearly expressed. We aim to provide same-day drafting for urgent wills, ensuring no time is wasted. We will often attend on your with pre-drafted documents or we will handwrite you a Will if time is of the essence.
– Simple or Complex Wills: Whether your will is straightforward or involves complex elements like trusts or inheritance tax planning, our solicitors have the expertise to handle it quickly and accurately.
– Signing the Will: Once the will is drafted, it must be signed correctly to ensure its validity. Our solicitors will arrange for this to happen as soon as possible, ensuring the process is witnessed properly. We can either visit you to oversee the signing or provide clear instructions on how to execute it with the necessary witnesses if time or location is an issue.
– Urgent Execution: In cases where time is of the essence, we will make every effort to have the will signed and witnessed on the same day. If you’re in hospital or unable to travel, we can arrange to visit you to ensure that the will is properly executed. Our solicitors will often stay on site with you and prepare the draft will and have it witnessed within the same meeting.
– Ensuring Compliance: For a will to be legally binding, it must meet certain requirements, such as being signed in the presence of two independent witnesses. Our solicitors will ensure these steps are followed meticulously, even in urgent circumstances, to avoid any future challenges to the will’s validity.
– Electronic Wills: While electronic wills are not valid under current UK law, we can make arrangements to prepare a will remotely and provide guidance on how to properly execute the document with in-person witnesses.
– Copies: Once the will is signed, we can provide you and your executors with copies for peace of mind. We also offer a secure storage service for your will, ensuring it is kept safe and accessible when needed.
– Review and Updates: After the urgent situation passes, we can arrange to review the will with you to ensure it still reflects your long-term wishes and make any necessary updates.