Have your will drawn up for free at MRR
The annual Wills Week is an initiative of the Law Society of South Africa to highlight the necessity for each person over the age of 16 to have a will and to have it prepared professionally by an experienced attorney.
Malherbe Rigg and Ranwell, in Boksburg, will this year again be be participating in Wills Week, drafting legal wills free of charge.
According to Jeff Matthee, from MRR, the local law firm has been in the forefront of the drafting of wills and the administration of estates for over 120 years.
“The drafting of documents at all times is an art; in the case of Wills, skill in the use of words is not enough – it must be combined with a thorough knowledge of testamentary law,” he said.
“While the draftsman may adequately provide for the devolution desired by the testator, the form in which the bequest is made may involve consequences flowing from the law of wills, which may have been neither contemplated nor desired by the testator.
“For instance, a testator may wish to appoint his wife as his heir and, after her death, his children.
“The draftsman may say exactly this, with the result that a ‘fideicommissum’ is created which prevents the wife from selling any of the assets or disposing of the capital, whereas all the testator may have had in mind was that while the wife was to enjoy his estate with complete and utter discretion and freedom to do with it as she pleased, the children should take on her death that which is left.”
Wills Week will be held from September 14 to 18.
To make an appointment, phone 011 918 4116 (extension 253) during office hours, to arrange an appointment with Jenny Venter, who can also be contacted on 011 918 4116 (extension 222).
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