Can anyone advise on this please? Wifey and me have 'mirror' wills, so basically exactly the same, straightforward - everything passes over to the other; then when the last of us dies it would be a few gifts to friends and relatives, but the rest being split equally between our two sons. This was set up about six / seven years ago, and we had my wife's sister down as the executor for when the last one of us dies / or we both went together.
Now, though the boys are both mature enough adults to be able to sort things out for themselves, so we want to get the will amended to put them in as executors, to replace wifey's sister (no need for her to be involved now). I called our solicitor and she gave out the usual patter, that it's good to review things, and with changes in the law, it's not good to do codicils to amend wills etc, and even if we keep the will exactly the same, but just change the executors put the boys names in, instead of sister in law, the bill will be £360. WTF? Just to re-issue the same thing with the names amended? Seems expensive to me......especially when you can get a DIY will from the post office etc
Any thoughts / comments please