Wills and Intestacy

We will be teaching the following parts of the SQE1 Assessment Specification:

Wills and Intestacy

Validity of wills and codicils:

• testamentary capacity
• knowledge and approval
• duress and undue influence
• who has the burden of proof when challenging validity
• formal requirements.

Personal Representatives:

• the appointment of executors
  • Eligibility
  • Suitability
• renunciation and reservation of power.

Alterations and amendments to wills:

• effect of alterations made to wills both before and after execution
• use and effect of codicils.

Revocation of wills:

• methods of revocation
  • later will
  • codicil
  • destruction
  • marriage and civil partnership
  • effect of divorce or dissolution on existing will

The interpretation of wills:

• effect of different types of gift
• failure of gifts.

The intestacy rules:

• Section 46 of The Administration of Estates Act 1925
• the statutory trusts.

Property passing outside the estate:

• joint property
• life policies
• pension scheme benefits
• trust property.

We will finish by practising MCQs on what we have covered.

The Session will be recorded.