By Peter Muller, QBM Lawyers

We have worked closely with RFS Advice for several years in estate planning for our mutual clients.  We enjoy working with the RFS Advice team who we have found to be competent and enthusiastic, and who we feel are genuinely motivated to help their clients. 

Sometimes we are asked by clients whether it is really necessary for them to have a lawyer prepare their will or whether a “home-made” will is enough. 

Recently when the question came up, I said that in some cases a home-made will can be fine, but the Supreme Court archives are littered with examples of home-made will disasters, where applications to the court have become necessary resulting in enormous costs to the estate and to the parties, and sometimes where the intentions of the will maker have not been carried out.