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Interesting things in the news recently….

Will Aid and the Certainty National Will Register are to join forces permanently following a successful trial during last year’s Will Aid campaign. Certainty provided free will registration to 3,500 people during the campaign, which saw 12,000 people visit solicitors to make a will. Lawyers waived their fees in return for a suggested donation to the Will Aid charity.

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Since joining Certainty 6 months ago Morrisons Solicitors has registered over 400 Wills on behalf of their clients. Morrisons is a typical example of a firm that has embraced Will registration and used it to create a very positive effect for both client and firm.

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Will Aid has teamed up with Certainty to enable the public to register their Wills during this years Will Aid campaign which runs throughout November.

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Looking seriously at protecting Private Clients? Then look seriously at Certainty because it is ’so much more than just a Will Register’.

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The Certainty National Will Register is the proud sponsor of the forthcoming STEP Autumn Conference. The conference will take place on the 9th October 2009 in London.

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In the last few months I have been asked to advise a number of small and medium sized firms on how to develop their private client department.  As part of the planning process I asked each of these firms who they regarded as their competition?  Every firm e-mailed me back a list of half a dozen or so other traditional legal practices in their town, city or local market place.

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In a recent poll of 200 solicitors 98% said that they held Wills where the testator has died but had not had the opportunity to administer the Will because the family could not find them.

Searching for a Will has never been so simple. Certainty’s Will Search service replaces the haphazard system under which a family has to ³guess² which law firm might have custody of a loved one’s Will. All too often Wills are deemed lost or presumed never written and are difficult to trace, near impossible some would say.

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Certainty teams up with Will Aid for November campaign.

Certainty has teamed up with the UK’s most enduring and successful charity Will-making scheme Will Aid in support of their November campaign.

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Published: 1st November 2009  Source: Julian Knight, Independent

It’s a difficult one Should people who are cohabiting have the right to claim the estates of their loved ones when they die in the same way bereaved spouses or civil partners do? The UK Law Commission says yes. But others say that if the cohabitees had meant their partners to have a share of their wealth they would have either got married or written a will. Dig deeper and the argument becomes one about protecting the “specialness” of marriage.

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Published: 31st October 2009  Source: Stephen Womack, Mail on Sunday Personal Finance Correspondent

Pensioners are being urged to draft ‘living wills’ in case they become incapacitated. As The Mail on Sunday reported last week, thousands of families each year have to apply to the Court of Protection if a relative is struck down with dementia or other long-term illnesses.

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