Wills and Estate Planning

Mark Fairweather is a practising solicitor and is one of the founding partners of the legal firm Fairweather Stephenson Co. He and Rosy Border have written 14 titles together, including five in Cavendish Publishing's Pocket Lawyer series. He has two children and lives in Suffolk. Rosy Border, co-author of this title and series editor of the Pocket Lawyer series, has a first class honours degree in French and has worked in publishing, lecturing, journalism and the law. A profile author and adapter, she stopped counting after 150 titles. Rosy and her husband, John Rabson, live in rural Suffolk and have a grown up family. Rosy enjoys DIY, entertaining and retail therapy in French markets.

Will you, won't you?; What have you got to give?; Choosing who will inherit and what they will get; spouses and partners; gifts to children and grandchildren in your will; Special beneficiaries; Appointing executors and guardians; Inheritance Tax 1; Inheritance Tax 2; Common Inheritance Tax bloopers; Life Insurance; Trusts; Funeral arrangements; Medical use of your body after death; Have you got it all together? Odds and ends; Signing, witnessing and safe keeping; Sample wills