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Understanding some legal terms (including kinds of gifts you can leave).
Beneficiary: Any person or organisation to whom you wish to leave a legacy or bequest (gift) in your will.
Codicil: Any change or addition that you make to your will. It must also follow the same legal formalities as the original will.
Contingent bequest: A gift in your will which depends upon the occurrence of an event which may or may not happen. For example – a bequest to a charity which applies only if other beneficiaries named in the will die before the testator (person who made the will).
Estate: The total sum of your possessions, property and money (minus debts) left after your death.
Executor(s): Persons appointed by you to make sure the wishes in your will are carried out.
Intestate: The condition of dying without having made a will.
Legacy: A bequest or gift left in your will, it can be in the form of money, property, stocks and shares or possessions.
Life interest: The right of a beneficiary to benefit from part or all of an estate for their lifetime.
Pecuniary bequest: A gift of a fixed sum of money in your will.
Probate: the legal procedure after death which confirms your will is valid and confirms the executors’ authority to carry out your wishes.
Residuary bequest: A gift of the remainder of the estate after all other bequests have been made and debts cleared.
Specific bequest: A particular named item left as a gift in your will – for example, a piece of jewellery.
Testator: A person who has made a will.
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We would be very happy to discuss the full range of work that requires support, and answer any questions you may have about our work or making a will. We can suggest suitable wording to ensure we can carry out your wishes accordingly.
Please e-mail Geoff Sweeney or telephone him on 0121 245 3500 to talk or to arrange to meet; you are welcome to visit our offices and studios and see our work behind the scenes, or we can arrange to visit you in your home.
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