Will search and registration available within OneAdvanced Legal
The National Will Register’s will search and registration services are available as part of OneAdvanced Legal’s portfolio, simplifying and speeding up the probate process by making the services an integral and easy to access part of will writing and probate matters from within the same platform as your practice and case management system.
What is The National Will Register?
The National Will Register, is the UK’s will registration and will search service in the UK, is used by the legal profession, Will writers, PI insurers, government agencies, charities and the public. Its mission is to ensure no Will is left unknown or untraced at the time it is needed.
Since its inception in 2006, location details of over 10 million wills have been added to the system through will registration, allowing those wills to be located when they are needed by executors, beneficiaries and loved ones, to ensure that the testators wishes are carried out as intended.
The importance of will search and will registration
Wills and probate solicitors interact with several (if not at times countless) third parties as they collate information and properly execute their services to ensure that the wishes of their clients and testators are carried out to their specifications. When it comes to probate, the importance of having the correct will is vital.
However, in The National Will Register’s National Wills Report, only 44% of people have a will, and 42% of people have discussed next steps or the existence of a will with their loved ones, and only a quarter have a life folder with details of a will. One in five positive matches for will searches with The National Will Register also leads to a change in estate administration as the will supersedes the one held or was not thought to exist.
Peace of mind and ease of use
In 2021, The National Will Register became part of OneAdvanced, further promoting the vital legal software alongside others that answers the challenges of legal professionals.
With the importance of having the correct will, and the statistical uncertainty of knowing whether the right will is in hand in many cases, wills and probate solicitors are urged as part of best practice to register wills with a will registration service such as The National Will Register, and carry out will searches to ensure beyond reasonable doubt that the will held is the correct one – or that an estate is truly intestate.
With OneAdvanced Legal, the processes are part of the platform. Meaning that within the same system as your will writing and probate cases, you can register a will or search for the will of someone without moving off the matter. Meaning that you can carry out best practice processes with no additional hassle.
Find out more by watching this explainer video on how The National Will Register operates within OneAdvanced Legal.
