As tempting as it may be to make a DIY Will to keep costs down, the consequences of such action may be far more costly.

Get your Will wrong and you won’t just be bruised, but bequeathing a potential nightmare for your bereaved and grief-stricken relatives and friends to deal with. Choose to overlook an obvious beneficiary, without explaining why, use words open to a different interpretation, or be ignorant of how the law operates in relation to your individual circumstances, and your final wishes may become a DIY disaster.

Writing a will is a skill, not a hobby – or at least it should be. However, just as many legal loopholes can be found in wills written by unqualified will writers, or by the wills factories now springing up.

DIY Wills and those drawn up by unqualified will writers may not be worth the paper they are written on. It is a terrible but true fact that, currently, a will writer does not need to have a qualification. Many people are misled into thinking their Will is sound, when it is not.