No, it's not a contract, but a perfectly valid will. I know this from our solicitor's advice when my wife had made a will shortly before we married: so long as the will stipulates it is made in contepmplation of matrimony, it is valid. If I had left her in the lurch at the registry office, which I didn't, she would have needed to make a new will anyway. Regards, Colin Mills On 09/08/2011 08:21, Keith Atkinson wrote: > If its stated in the Will that it is conditional on the marriage taking > place(within x weeks?) then surely it would not be a Will but a contract ? > Keith Atkinson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Colin Mills"<[email protected]> > To:<[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 11:01 PM > Subject: Re: [SOG-UK] Will made on marriage > > >> It is apparently quite usual to make a will in contemplation of >> matrimony (solicitor's advice) which is not invalidated by marriage. >> >> Regards, Colin Mills >> >> On 08/08/2011 16:35, ag.hamilton wrote: >>> I have a will written on Sept. 5 1946 which refers to the testatrix's >>> husband and her stepchildren (who are all named). In fact she didn't >>> marry the husband until about six weeks later on Oct 16. >>> >>> It's normal to make a new will at the time of marriage - would it be >>> normal to make it before the marriage? It's a legal document and this >>> one refers to 'husband' and 'stepchildren' who didn't have that >>> relationship at the time the will was signed. >>> >>> The 'husband' was the brother of the testatrix's first husband. I can't >>> find a record of his death and wonder if there was a divorce, or had they >>> just separated and her marriage in October was perhaps not legal? >>> >>> Any advice on this would be helpful. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Angela Hamilton >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >