• March 28, 2024
 Certainty Will Search Helps To Locate Wills Throughout lockdown

Certainty Will Search Helps To Locate Wills Throughout lockdown

It is not uncommon for firms to close down and for others to inherit their Will Bank. Although their clients’ Wills have been safely moved and stored, often the Testators who wrote the Will are unaware that their Will has been moved which can lead to complications in locating the Will after they have passed away.

Nicola Combe, a Will writer and member of The Society of Will Writers who runs her own firm Morecambe Bay Wills and Estates Limited recently encountered this problem when a member of the public contacted her looking for her grandmother’s Will.

Nicola comments:

“I recently received a call from the granddaughter of the deceased who was searching for her grandmother’s Will. Her and her mother were aware that she had previously written a Will but they did not know where it had been stored.”

“Due to her grandmother passing away during the Covid-19 pandemic, they were unable to make the journey from their home in Oldham to Morecambe where her grandmother lived to check if she had a copy of her Will in her paperwork. They had asked a neighbour to enter her grandmother’s home to check but they were unable to locate anything. This had left her having to call solicitors and Will writers in the local area to find out if they had her grandmother’s Will. After she explained that she had spoken to seven other firms with no prevail, I suggested that she should contact Certainty the National Will Register to conduct a Will Search.”

The member of the public took Nicola’s advice and conducted a Certainty Will Search.

Nicola continues:

“Later that day after suggesting a Certainty Will Search should be conducted, she called back to confirm that the Will search had located her grandmother’s Will. The law firm who were holding the Will had contacted her. The law firm who had originally written the Will was no longer practicing and had merged with another law firm, inheriting their Will bank.”

“As a Will writer and member of The Society of Will Writers, I store my clients’ Wills with The National Will Archive which registers all of them on The National Will Register. My clients receive a certificate of registration to store with their documents which eliminates the risk that their Will cannot be located in the future. It’s an important and very valuable service and gives my clients peace of mind.”

This article was submitted to be published by Certainty as part of their advertising agreement with Today’s Wills and Probate. The views expressed in this article are those of the submitter and not those of Today’s Wills and Probate.

The National Will Register

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Certainty the National Will Register is the UK’s provider of a National Will Register and Will Search service. Certainty Will Search and Will Registration is exclusively endorsed by the Law Society, recommended by key organisations and used by thousands of solicitors, the public, charities and financial institutions to register Wills and search for Wills. At peak times, one Will is registered every two seconds on The National Will Register. The confidential contents of the Will are not disclosed, only the existence and location of where the Will is stored is recorded, ensuring that it can be found quickly and easily once the Testator has passed on. Registration ensures that if beneficiaries and executors are unaware if a Will was written or have forgotten where it’s located, it can be easily found by conducting a Register Will Search. The existence of a Will and its location are confidential. Only when the Testator has passed away can a Will’s location be declared. Even then, it will be disclosed only when the person searching for the Will has a genuine, bona fide interest and that person can provide a copy of a death certificate. Certainty Will Search not only searches for registered Wills but also nationally for Wills that have not been registered to help prevent an old Will being used to distribute the estate or when the existence of a Will is unknown. In addition, Certainty the National Will Register provides an online Will management tool for solicitors, which can be accessed remotely from anywhere with a secure internet connection so they can safely register Wills, search for Wills and use additional services Certainty the National Will Register provides for professionals. For more information, please contact us on 0330 100 3660 or email enquiries@certainty.co.uk. Address The Chapel Chapel Lane Lapworth Warwickshire B94 6EU