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Make a Single parent will and Enduring Power of Attorney

There are 2 forms. First your Will and second your EPA. The EPA has now been replaced by the Lasting Power of Attorney and we shall have this available shortly for you.

They are both on this page and easy to use.  If you need help and guidance this is available online.  Click the links on this page and the help and guidance  appears on screen in a new window.  Move between the 2 windows to fill in the form and get help.

To keep our costs as low as £27 we offer this special Will for a single parent with children. They will share your whole estate equally between them.

We need the details requested in the form below to personalise your will.

Thinking about your Will only complete the first form.

But please read these guidance notes below.  You can read the guidance notes in a separate window.

Single parent guidance notes - Will

Will notes

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1. This will is intended for only a single parent with 1 or more children.

2. What this will does.  This will enables you, a single parent, to appoint executors (for example your parents, brothers or sisters or friends) and your children's guardians.  It assumes you will leave your whole estate to your children equally.  You can make a direction about your funeral arrangements if you wish (optional).

3. If you have more than 1 child then the will assumes that if any of them die before you then your estate is divided equally between the surviving child/children.  (eg 2 children share 50:50 but if 1 dies before you the surviving child takes all.  Or if 3 children share 1/3 each, then 2 share 1/2 each).

4. Because of these assumptions YesTor have kept the price of this will to a minimum £15.

5. Executors - Those who manage your estate after you die.  Married couples usually appoint each other as sole executors.  However you may chose to appoint each other with others.  This is a personal decision and you should decide for yourselves what choices to make.

6. You should get proposed executors agreement to act before you appoint them.  The will form guides you through the appointment process.

7. Your appointed executors will also be your trustees.  For example when your children inherit and 1 or more is under 18 special legal rules apply.  These wills provide for children to inherit when they reach 18.  So a child under 18 (minor child) has to wait to inherit.   What happens to their share (presumptive share) during the waiting period?  Put simply it is held in the name/s of the executors and trustees on their behalf.  Usually in interest bearing accounts or gilts (your executors may need to seek advice on this).

8. In some circumstances you may wish to appoint accountants, solicitors or banks as your executors and trustees.  YesTor supply standard and the more typical wills.  These wills do not provide for the appointment of professional executors or include the special charging clauses that will be included.  If you feel you may require more complicated wills, perhaps because you have substantial assets or more complicated tax affairs then you should seek your own detailed professional advice.

9. Guardians - Only if you have any children under 18 now do you need to appoint guardians.  Guardians are the people whom you wish to actually look after your minor children if you have both died.  (If 1 of you dies no guardians are appointed).  You will need to speak to the proposed guardians and obtain their agreement first.  It is possible to appoint guardians as executors as well.  

10. In this will you can appoint 1 or 2 guardians.

11. Single parent guidance notes for an EPA

12. You may already understand what an Enduring Power of Attorney is.  If not then please read the plain English YesTor guide.  There is a more detailed explanation as well.

13. The person who makes the EPA is called the donor.  You are the donor and appoint attorney/s.

14. You may choose one attorney or more than one. If you choose more than one, you must decide whether they are able to act:
    - Jointly (that is, they must all act together and cannot act separately); or
    - Jointly and severally (that is, they can all act together but they can also act separately if they wish).

15. If you give your attorney(s) general power in relation to all your property and affairs, it means that they will be able to deal with your money or property and may be able to sell your house.

16. If you don’t want your attorneys to have such wide powers, you can include any restrictions you like. For example, you can include a restriction that your attorney(s) must not act on your behalf until they have reason to believe that you are becoming mentally incapable; or a restriction as to what your attorney(s) may do. Any restrictions you choose must be written or typed where indicated on the form.

17. If you are a trustee (and please remember that co-ownership of a home involves trusteeship), you should seek legal advice if you want your attorney(s) to act as a trustee on your behalf.

18. Unless you put in a restriction preventing it, your attorney(s) will be able to use any of your money or property to make any provision which you yourself might be expected to make for their own needs or the needs of other people. Your attorney(s) will also be able to use your money to make gifts, but only for reasonable amounts in relation to the value of your money and property.

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