Practical Will Precedents

Authors	Murray Hallam et al
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Complete Index as at Release 20 — October 2007

A: Absolute residuary gifts

A1a Absolute residuary gift—standard form - amended

A1b Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with outright gift to adult children in default and substitutional outright gifts for adult grandchildren - amended

A2 Absolute residuary gift - short form - amended

A3 Absolute residuary gift - single clause

B: Residuary gifts for spouse/civil partner and children (trust wording included)

B1a Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with outright gift to adult children in default and substitutional gifts for minor grandchildren [at specified age] - amended

B1b Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with trusts for bereaved minors in default and substitutional gifts for grandchildren [at specified age] - amended

B1c Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with 18-to-25 trusts [optional deferral of income vesting to [25]] in default and substitutional gifts for grandchildren [at specified age] - amended

B1d Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with default IPDI for children subject to overriding power of appointment and discretionary trusts in default - amended

B1e Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with default IPDI for children with no overriding power of appointment but power for life tenant to appoint remainders failing which trusts for grandchildren [at specified age] - amended

B1f Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with default IPDI for children with limited overriding power of appointment and power for life tenant to appoint remainders failing which trusts for grandchildren [at specified age] - amended

B1g Absolute interest for spouse/civil partner with discretionary trusts in default - amended

B2 IPDI for spouse/civil partner with discretionary trusts in default - amended

B3 IPDI for spouse/civil partner with limited overriding power of appointment and outright gifts to trusts for bereaved minors/18-to-25 trusts for children - amended

B4 IPDI for spouse/civil partner with default IPDIs for children if spouse/civil partner does not survive and discretionary trusts in default - amended

B5 IPDI for spouse/civil partner on protective trusts followed by discretionary trusts - amended

B6 Mirror will for surviving spouse with legacies from gift over - amended

B7 IPDI for spouse/civil partner with default trusts in separate shares for testator’s children and children of spouse/civil partner - amended

C: Discretionary trusts of residue

C1a Discretionary trust - amended

C1b Discretionary trust with protector (including extended administrative powers) - amended

C2 Trust for the disabled - amended

D: Residuary gifts — no spouse/civil partner (trust wording included)

D1 Single defeasible IPDI with discretionary trusts in default - amended

D2a Parallel defeasible IPDIs with outright gifts in default - amended

D2b Parallel defeasible IPDIs with discretionary trusts in default - amended

D3 Parallel IPDIs with power for life tenant to appoint remainders with outright gifts in default - amended

D4 Parallel defeasible IPDIs with limited power of appointment and power for life tenant to appoint remainders with outright gifts in default - amended

D5a Gift to children at a specified age with option to qualify as trusts for bereaved minors or 18-to-25 trusts - renumbered and amended

D5b Gift to children on flexible bereaved minors trusts or 18-to-25 trusts - new

D6 Outright gifts to adult children and substitutional gifts to minor grandchildren [at specified age] with gifts over for reserve beneficiaries - amended

E: Charitable trusts

E1 Will with residue on charitable trusts, - amended

E1s Schedule of charitable trusts - amended

F: Replacement and supplementary clauses

F1: Revocation and other declarations

F1a Standard form of revocation and declaration

F1b1 Revocation and declaration conditional on marriage/civil partnership

F1b2 Revocation and declaration in expectation of marriage/civil partnership

F1c Inclusion of former spouse/civil partner

F1d Restriction to limited territory (with partial revocation)

F1e Restriction to limited territory (with full revocation)

F1f Worldwide except for particular territory

F1g Declaration in respect of mutual will

F1h Declaration of foreign domicile

F2: Funeral wishes and advance directives

F2a Burial clause

F2b Cremation clause

F2c Precaution against premature burial

F2d Request for donation of body - amended

F2e Request for donation of parts of the body

F2f Power for executors to incur expense

F2g Burial at sea clause

F2h Living will - amended

F3: Appointment of executors and trustees

F3a Standard form of appointment of executors

F3b1 Appointment of executors with single substitution

F3b2 Appointment of executors with multiple substitutions

F3b3 Appointment of executors with specific substitutions

F3b4 Appointment of executors with specific substitutions (one professional executor) - amended

F3b5 Appointment of trust corporation as executor

F3c Appointment of trust corporation as executor

F3d1 Appointment of partners in a firm as executors

F3d2 Appointment of members in a limited liability partnership as executors

F3e Appointment of literary/intellectual property executors

F3f Appointment of literary/intellectual property executors and direction to hold literary/intellectual property on trusts applicable to residuary estate

F3g Power of appointing new trustees

F3h Appointment of new trustees with successive appointors

F3i Power to appoint and remove trustees

F3j Appointment of charity representatives as executors

F3k Appointment of charity which has trust corporation status as executor

F3l Appointment of executors to continue administration of open estates

F4: Appointment of guardians

F4a Standard form of appointment of guardians - amended

F4b Declaration excluding Children Act 1989, s 6

F5: Legacies

F5a Specific legacies

F5b1 Absolute pecuniary legacy

F5b2 Absolute pecuniary legacy to minor - amended

F5b3 Conditional pecuniary legacy

F5b4 Two-year simple discretionary trust

F5b5 Pecuniary legacy on discretionary trusts - amended

F5c Pecuniary legacy to executors

F5d1 Contingent pecuniary legacy

F5d2 Conditional contingent pecuniary legacy

F5e Index-linked pecuniary legacy

F5f1 Nil rate band - Absolute pecuniary legacy

F5f2 Nil rate band - Pecuniary legacy on discretionary trusts - amended

F5f3 Nil rate band - Absolute pecuniary legacy (short form)

F5f4 Nil rate band - Legacy of assets used in a business - amended

F5f5 Nil rate band - Legacy of Lloyd's interests on discretionary trusts - amended

F5f6 Nil rate band - Legacy of business and/or agricultural property on discretionary trusts - amended

F5f7 Nil rate band - Legacy of business and/or agricultural property and additional property up to nil rate band limit, on discretionary trusts - amended

F5f8 Nil rate band - Two-year simple discretionary trust of nil rate band

F5f9 Legacy with additional provisions for debt/charge scheme - amended

F5f10 Direction to pay nil rate band legacy out of UK property - new

F5g1 Pecuniary legacy to individual with memorandum of wishes

F5g2 Pecuniary legacy to individual with memorandum of wishes

F5h1 Absolute pecuniary legacy to employees

F5h2 Legacy on employee trusts

F5i Legacy to an existing trust

F5j Legacy of insurance policy

F5k Legacy of family protection policy

F5l1 Simple annuity

F5l2 Index-linked annuity

F5m1 Absolute gift of business (sole trader) - amended

F5m2 Settled gift of business (sole trader)

F5m3 Legacy of business interests (Lloyd's)

F5m4 Gift of interest in partnership business

Designation under Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, ss 31-48

F5m6 Legacy of business and/or agricultural property

F5m7 Legacy of business and/or agricultural property on discretionary trusts - amended

F5n1 Absolute legacy of shares - amended

F5n2 Settled legacy of shares

F5o Legacy for the maintenance of a grave

F5p1 Legacy of foreign property (general)

F5p2 Legacy of French property (to spouse)

F5p3 Legacy payable out of foreign property - new

F5p4 Legacy payable out of foreign bank account - new>

F5q1 Absolute gift of literary/intellectual property

F5q2 Settled gift of literary/intellectual property

F5r1 Legacy for the care of an animal with memorandum of wishes

F5r2 Absolute legacy for the care of an animal

F5r3 Legacy to RSPCA for the care of an animal

F5s Legacy of release of a debt or debts

F5t1 Pecuniary legacy to a named charity

F5t2 Pecuniary legacy to the Charities Aid Foundation

F5t3 Charitable legacy distributable at trustees' discretion

F5t4 Pecuniary legacy for the benefit of an NHS hospital

F5u Pecuniary legacy to a non-charitable unincorporated association

F5v Legacy to a Church of England parish

F6: Personal chattels

F6a Standard personal chattels legacy

F6b1 Personal chattels legacy with memorandum of wishes - to individual

F6b2 Personal chattels legacy with memorandum of wishes - to executors

F6b3 Personal chattels legacy with memorandum of wishes - to individual with executors as substitutes

F6b4 Personal chattels legacy with memorandum of wishes - to individual with executors as substitutes (memorandum of wishes for executors only)

F6c1 Settled legacy of personal chattels (life interest)

F6c2 Settled legacy of personal chattels (life interest with overriding power of appointment) - amended

F6d Settled legacy of personal chattels (discretionary) - amended

F7: Real property

F7a1 Absolute gift

F7a2 Defeasible absolute gift

F7b1 Settled gift (immediate post-death interest) - amended

F7b2 Settled gift (discretionary trust) - amended

F7c Gift of advowson

F7d Gift of lordship of the manor - amended

F8 Exercise of special power of appointment in favour of surviving spouse

F9: Receipt clauses

F9a General

F9b Charity

F9c Religious institution

F9d Minors

F10: Incidence of inheritance tax

F10a Heritage property

F10b Lifetime transfers - amended

F10c1 Partially exempt residue - Beneficiaries to receive equal net amounts

F10c2 Partially exempt residue - Beneficiaries to receive equal gross amounts

F10d Property held as joint tenants

F11 Exclusion of doctrine of satisfaction

F12 Accounting for lifetime gifts

F13: Survivorship

F13a Survivorship (all beneficiaries)

F13b Survivorship (specified beneficiaries)

F14: Construction and exclusion clauses

F14aDefinition of children and issue

F14a2 Definition of children and issue—recognition of illegitimated children by natural parent

F14b Exclusion of Wills Act 1837, s 33

F14c Exclusion of Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996, ss 19 and 20

F14d Exclusion of s 11(1) of the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 - amended

F14e Forfeiture clause - exclusion of beneficiary who disputes any provision of the will

F15: Option to purchase property

F15a Beneficiary committed on exercise of option

F15b Beneficiary committed only after valuation

F16: Breakdown of marriage and the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975

F16c Declaration that provision made during lifetime - renumbered

F16d Declaration that financial security basis for making no provision - renumbered

F17: Administrative and supplementary clauses

F17a Trustees' and executors' powers

F17b Clause headings

F17c Restrictions in relation to partnership interests - amended

F17d Power to create maintenance fund

F17e Consent to sale of specified property

F17f Power to approve variation

F17g Power to disclaim in part - amended

F17h Power to add to the beneficiaries - amended

F17i Declaration annulling gift to bankrupt beneficiary - amended

F17j Power to insure against an unknown potentially exempt transfer

F17k Extended power of maintenance deferring incomevesting - amended

F17l Payment of taxes

G: Administrative powers

G1 Administrative powers (long form) - amended

G2 Administrative powers (short form) - amended

G3 Administrative powers (selected short form) - amended

H: Testimonium and attestation clauses

H1 General form

H2 Where the will has been altered

H3 Acknowledgement by testator of signature made previously

H4 Illiterate testator

H5 Where another signs on behalf of the testator

H6 Blind testator

H7 Where testator has imperfect knowledge of English

H8 Where an application for a statutory will is made on behalf of a patient - amended

I: Letters and summaries for use with precedents

I1a Letter and summary for use with Precedent B1a - amended

I1b Letter and summary for use with Precedent B1c - amended

I1c Letter and summary for use with Precedent B1d - amended

I1d Letter and summary for use with Precedent B1f - amended

I1e Letter and summary for use with Precedent B2 - amended

I1f Letter and summary for use with Precedent B3 - amended

I1g Letter and summary for use with Precedent B4 - amended

I2 Letter and summary for use with Precedent C1a - amended

I3a Letter and summary for use with Precedent D1 - amended

I3b Letter and summary for use with Precedent D2a - amended

I3c Letter and summary for use with Precedent D3 - amended

I3d Letter and summary for use with Precedent D4 - amended

J: Subsidiary documents

J1: Codicils

J1a Change of one or more executors and/or trustees

J1b Change of or addition to legatees

J1c Change of legacies

J1d Minor amendments to will

J1e Addition of provisions to will

J1f Republication of will revoked on marriage

J2J: Deeds of variation

J2a Redirection of specified property (absolute)

J2b Redirection of specified property (on trust)

J2c Provision for cash sum payable out of residuary estate (absolute)

J2d1 Provision for cash sum payable out of residuary estate (on trust - trusts set out in the pilot settlement)

J2d2 Provision for cash sum to facilitate use of nil rate band payable out of exempt share of residuary estate (on discretionary trusts - trusts set out in deed) - amended

J2e Redirection of pecuniary legacy (absolute)

J2f Redirection of pecuniary legacy (on trust)

J2g Redirection of share of residue (absolute)

J2h Redirection of share of residue (on trust)

J2i Redirection of severable share of joint property

J2j Redirection of entitlements on intestacy

J2k Provision for cash sum payable out of residuary estate (absolute) - further variation

J2l: Redirection of entitlement of deceased beneficiary

J2l1 New beneficiary takes absolutely

J2l2 New beneficiaries take under trust - amended

J2l3 New beneficiaries take on trusts of deceased beneficiary's will - amended

J3 Deed of disclaimer

J4: Appointments under settled legacies or trusts of residue

J4a Absolute appointment

J4b Life interest appointment

J4c1 Trust for bereaved minors/18-to-25 trust appointment out of residue held on discretionary trusts - renumbered and amended

J4c2 Trust for bereaved minors/18-to-25 trust appointment (simple form) in relation to residue held on trust which qualifies as IPDI (new trust to take effect when IPDI comes to an end) - new

J4c3 Trust for bereaved minors/18-to-25 trust appointment (simple form) out of residue held on trust which qualifies as IPDI (wholly or partially terminating interest) - new

J4c4 Trust for bereaved minors/18-to-25 trust appointment (flexible form) out of residue held on trust which qualifies as IPDI (wholly or partially terminating interest) - new

J4d Nil rate band legacy and defeasible life interest appointment out of residue held on discretionary trusts - amended

J5: Appropriation and assents

J5a1 Appropriation - general

J5a2 Appropriation by executors to themselves as trustees of a will trust

J5b1 Assent under hand by executors to a beneficiary absolutely entitled

J5b2 Assent under hand by executors to themselves as trustees of a will trust

J5b3 Assent by deed by executors to a beneficiary absolutely entitled (subject to covenants)

J5b4 Deed of appointment of a new trustee of a conveyance to joint owners where there is a tenancy in common

J6: Memoranda of wishes

J6a Chattels

J6b Discretionary trusts

J6c Memorandum of wishes (specimen letter for use with Precedent B2) - amended

J7 Nomination to trustees of company pension scheme

J8 Declaration as to non-mutuality of wills

J9 Instructions for executing a will or codicil

J10: Tables and reliefs

J10a Inheritance tax table (Not on disk)

J10b Taper relief tables (Not on disk)

J10c Quick succession relief(Not on disk)

J11 Will questionnaire - amended

J12 Notice of severance of joint tenancy

J13: Indemnity

J13a For breach of trust (devastavit)

J13b On distribution to individual beneficiary - amended

J13c On distribution to trustees of will trust

J13d On distribution to a charity

J14: Client care and post-death letters

J14a Client care letter—taking instructions to prepare a will - amended

J14b Summary letter post-death for use with Precedent B3 surviving spouse/civil partner executor - amended

J14c Summary letter post-death for use with Precedent B3—surviving spouse/civil partner not executor - amended

J15 The devolution of an estate on intestacy in England and Wales

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