At Fennelly Legal, a will for a single person is $550 + GST, and wills for a couple are $1,000 + GST.
We also prepare powers of attorney. There are two types, financial and medical, and you can choose financial only or both financial and medical.
You can fill in most of your details online so we can get things up and running. But you can’t buy a will and finish it yourself on our website, and that’s deliberate. We review every will, and there always has to be a conversation.
Wills are more intricate than they look
Powers of attorney are usually fairly simple. Wills are more intricate. There’s often a lot more to them, and we need to drill down.
A will can involve superannuation, children from a previous marriage, assets, trusts or businesses. A form might work for a lot of people, but it’s not worth the risk. That hands-on conversation is how we make sure we’ve ticked off everything we need to.
A conversation picks up what a form can’t
When we talk with you, we hear the nuances that never show up in a form.
Here’s an example lawyers have been caught out by before. Someone says, “I’ll leave all my super to my kids, but that’s fine, because I’ve left my house to my partner.” When we drill down, it turns out the house is owned by a trust, not in their own name, so they can’t leave it to anyone in their will.
People don’t think like that. They think, “It’s my house,” because they paid for it. But it might be in the name of a trust or a company, or in two names rather than one. That’s why we drill down on a lot of things and really get to the bottom of your situation.
And that’s the huge risk people run when they do their own wills.
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