Many years ago, a close cousin of mine challenged me to write my will. We were in our early 30s then and she was waxing lyrical about how one needed to be organised regardless of what age one was, as long as one had assets.
“It never ceases to amaze me how even my own friends who are lawyers have not written their own wills!” she exclaimed. Anyway, her exhortations fell on deaf ears. I only got to write my will eight years after my father died, using the same set of estate planning questions that my late father had been given to use by his lawyers.
