15/10/2026
A Will Holds Two Gifts
Every client I look after has a will. In this practice it is one of the first things we deal with, long before we talk about anything else, because I have seen it go both ways.
When that day comes, the family who has one is carried through the weeks that follow. Everything has already been decided, in your words. Nobody has to wonder. Nobody has to argue. There is grief, and grief is heavy enough on its own, but there is nothing piled on top of it.
I would like that for people who are not my clients, too.
I have come to think of a will as two gifts.
The first one is yours, and you get to enjoy it while you are alive. It is the quiet that comes from knowing your affairs are in order and the people you trust are named, in your own words. Most people tell me they feel it the moment they put the pen down.
The second one you will never see.
It goes to your husband or your wife. Your children. The people who will be sitting in a room together, trying to be strong for each other. What they inherit is weeks they can spend remembering you, because you did the planning for them beforehand. There is very little left for them to work out, and we will be there to walk them through the rest.
There is something lovely in that, and I do not think people stop to notice it often enough. The last thing you ever do for the people you love can be an act of care.
If you have been meaning to get to it, phone us. Ask whatever you want to ask first, and we will take it from there. It is a conversation about who you look after, and the size of your estate makes no difference to the work.
There is no charge for drawing up a will, and we work in English and Afrikaans. Once it is signed, we keep it safe for you, and we make sure those closest to you know exactly how to find it when the time comes.
Isobel
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