Case shows importance of will writing services

The importance of using quality will writing services has been highlighted by a case in which a woman failed to quash her mother's will, believing that she should have passed away intestate.

This Is Gloucester reported that Prabha Patel of Cheltenham launched a legal battle to overrule her late mother's will as it left her four daughters out of her £200,000 estate, instead naming each of Ms Patel's three sons as a will beneficiary.

When Kunvarben Chotubhai Patel, Ms Patel's mother, decided to make a will in 2003 it was made by a writer who had difficulty understanding Ms Patel senior and was thus invalid, her daughter claimed.

When the will was drawn up Patel senior used a friend who spoke both Gujarati and English to pass on her instructions to a will writer, who Ms Patel argues should have been a professional interpreter.

As a result, Ms Patel's four sons received a farm in India and the £180,000 family home in Cheltenham.

All of Ms Patel senior's seven children would have benefitted from her estate had she passed away in intestate.

In addition, Unbiased.co.uk revealed that intestatcy is common to around 30 million people in the UK.

Posted by Hannah Carr