It is also possible for minor children and people lacking testamentary capacity to make statutory Wills or ‘court-authorised Wills’.

Statutory Wills are appropriate when:

• A minor child has received an inheritance or is generating their own income
• A person with an intellectual disability is likely to receive substantial assets by inheritance or compensation
• A person with sizeable assets has lost capacity due to dementia
• Where the rules of intestacy, which set out which relatives automatically inherit, are inappropriate