You’ll thank me when I’m gone!
Ian Nicholson from Beaulieu Wills and Estate Planning brings us the latest instalment of his series of blogs about estate planning … After a month off to recover from my skydiving efforts (many thanks to all of you who kindly sponsored me), I’m back now with the...
The Unspeakable Conversation but a Safe Landing!
I am sure you will remember, at the end of my last blog I was hoping that I would still be here to write the next one, because I had agreed to do something I’d said I’d never do… A SKYDIVE! Haven’s Hospices had somehow convinced me to jump out of a perfectly good...
Out of Body or just Out of My Mind?
Ok, so this month my blog is going to take a break again from our nuclear family, the one sitting around the dinner table discussing all things Will related. The reason? Well, a month or so ago I had an out of body experience… or so it seemed! ‘What was I thinking!’ I...
The Unspeakable Conversation – What Took you So Long?
So, after last month’s departure into the calculus classroom, with a lesson on the dangers of writing your own Will, this month we are back by popular demand with our family around the dinner table! This time the kids are asking Mum and Dad “So if it makes so much...
Where there’s a Will, there’s a Way (and a calculator)
I’m quite often asked “Why don’t I just do the Will myself?”. Well, the answer is of course you can do it yourself, the same as you can service your car, install a kitchen, and rewire a house yourself! But the reason we don’t generally do that is that: We just don’t...
The Unspeakable Conversation………it’s still going on. Funerals…..what can you do now?
So, now that our nuclear family have sat around the dinner table and have cleared up things like inevitably dying, making a Will, and finally putting in place a Lasting Power of Attorney, one of the kids pipes up with the question all of them had been thinking. “I...
The Unspeakable conversation – The one that just keeps on going …
So, by now the family have not only had a heartfelt chat about death and arranging Wills but are now sometime into a rather deep discussion about what happens if either Mum or Dad lose their ability to make decisions for themselves. As with a lot of kids, the usual...
That unspeakable conversation continues…
Following on from my recent November 2020 Blog, the family are now sitting around the dining table talking about, dare I say it aloud… ‘dying’. However, Mum and Dad are quite convinced that all will be ok should this unfortunate issue arise, without the need to set up...
That Unspeakable Conversation…
So, as we all know, families sit around the dinner table and openly discuss ‘when they’re going to die’ and ‘who they want to have their savings, investments and property’ …said no-one ever! The truth is, that nobody likes talking about death, even someone like me,...