WILL-WRITING COMPANIES
There has been a lot in the media recently concerning will-writing companies and a debate over whether will-writingcompanies should be regulated. Much of the public wrongly believe that will-writers are trained solicitors.
In addition to drawing up a will, will-writing companies are sometimes appointed to act as executors of the will and it has been reported that a test case is being brought to ascertain whether a family have the right to appoint whom they wish as an executor in place of the will-writing company appointed by the deceased. The reason for the test case appears to be that the will- writing company will be charging twice as much for administering the estate as a competitive quote that has been obtained from a firm of solicitors.
In the meantime clients should be reassured that if they instruct us we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the basis of our charges will be fair and reasonable and considerably less than those charged by banks or will-writing companies.
