{"id":9393,"date":"2021-05-17T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=9393"},"modified":"2021-05-17T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:27:41","slug":"the-importance-of-writing-a-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/the-importance-of-writing-a-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Writing A Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><ul>\n<li>Dying intestate (without writing a will) risks leaving your estate in the wrong hands and a larger slice with the taxman than necessary.<\/li>\n<li>The Law Society says one in three people in the UK die without a will.<\/li>\n<li>Half of all people over the age of 45 have not made a will.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s far better to make a will at any stage of life than let the intestacy rules come into play which can prove pretty disastrous in many types of situations.<\/p>\n<p>This remains a vital part of financial planning to reduce the risk of leaving unintended bequests to the state or distant family members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Can Help.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re Maplebrook Wills<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Limited, an established UK franchise network, and we\u2019re seeking motivated, enthusiastic people to run their own businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Our franchise holders provide will writing services to the public. Will writing is a recession-proof industry in which it\u2019s surprisingly easy to\u00a0develop a business\u00a0bringing in significant revenue every year whilst also providing a vital service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dying intestate (without writing a will) risks leaving your estate in the wrong hands and a larger slice with the taxman than necessary. The Law Society says one in three people in the UK die without a will. Half of all people over the age of 45 have not made a will. It&#8217;s far better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maplebrook-wills","category-accountancy-and-finance-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/maplebrook-12.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}