Wills

Sixty-nine per cent of adults in Scotland either do not have a will or have one that is out of date, a national will-writing charity has revealed.

Glasgow firm Livingstone Brown has celebrated raising over £13,000 for charity in its tenth year of participation in the annual Will Aid campaign. The firm has written more than 250 wills for people in exchange for a voluntary donation since it first signed up to the scheme.

A company established by a Scottish solicitor, delivering quick and affordable online wills in clients' own homes, has recorded meteoric growth since the coronavirus lockdown with an upsurge among women and health professionals. Lawyer Bruce de Wert set up www.MyScottishWill.co.uk in the year 2000 a

People in Scotland need to be more aware of the importance of making a will and keeping it updated, the Law Society of Scotland has said. In its response to a Scottish government consultation, the Law Society backed proposals to reform inheritance law in cases where an individual has died without a

An online will writing too has raised £7.5 million in a bid to “disrupt the death industry” as it aims for a 10 per cent share of the market by the end of this year. Farewill, which currently produces one in 30 wills in the UK, plans to use funding injection to double the size of i