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Sep 2022
1:39pm, 27 Sep 2022
2,487 posts
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Ally-C
We’ve no children, I’ve a sister who only has step children I’ve no real bond with or animosity tbf & my wife has a brother who had no kids.
Tbh, all of the above are fairly comfortable & we’d rather leave anything to charities than any distant claimants. There’s a decent chance we’d out live our siblings too.
Anyone been in the same boat? I’m thinking animal or hillwalking associated charities with any living relatives getting a token amount.
Even if we blow our pensions the house is worth something.
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Sep 2022
4:43pm, 27 Sep 2022
19,101 posts
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larkim
Always expensive, but get a lawyer to draft. There may well be conditions and such like that you want to apply to gifts to charities that might be easy to express in plain english but difficult to translate into the arcane world of wills and trusts!
We've done a moderately complex one as we need one of our adult sons to have his funds held in a trust when we die because of his learning disabilities etc. It felt like money well spent in the end as the peace of mind knowing it should all stand up to scrutiny was valuable to us.
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Sep 2022
4:48pm, 27 Sep 2022
20,333 posts
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Sharkie
We're similar, Ally-C - though may well have used up property funds by time we peg it. We're in the process of rewriting - it's surprising how much things can change in a relatively few years.
My partner will probably leave to Woodland Trust and the like, I'm thinking more of the arts. -something like dance scholarships. 'Some' animal charities are already quite rich - I think RSPB is very well supported for instance
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Sep 2022
5:00pm, 27 Sep 2022
56,941 posts
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Derby Tup
Get a will written up. My mum used to say the main thing is people you don’t want your inherentence going not getting it. She didn’t leave me anything in her will 
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Sep 2022
5:21pm, 27 Sep 2022
13,482 posts
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jda
If you have friends who could use a bit of money then no harm in considering them too.
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Sep 2022
6:06pm, 27 Sep 2022
20,334 posts
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Sharkie
I did that in the will I wrote 15 years ago, jda - and now one friend is better off than I will ever be and anything I'd left her would be a tiny drop in her plentiful ocean.
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Sep 2022
6:16pm, 27 Sep 2022
830 posts
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Shades
I have no close family, or needy friends so I have left my estate to a charity. I named a specific charity but was advised to say that should the charity no longer exist when I die then my estate to go to another charity that does the same work/cause.
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Sep 2022
6:21pm, 27 Sep 2022
13,483 posts
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jda
Perhaps worth updating your will? Ours have certainly changed a few times over the years.
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Sep 2022
6:26pm, 27 Sep 2022
20,335 posts
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Sharkie
Yeah, that's what we're both doing. It keeps getting put off but is a must. At least we HAVE wills with the main bit done that won't change. Everything to the surviving partner. We're not married so it's extra important.
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Sep 2022
6:49pm, 27 Sep 2022
2,042 posts
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Big_G
Possibly consider Power of Attorney, too.
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