For a Will to be valid in the UK, the testator has to sign and date it by hand in “wet ink” and that copy is the only version that is legally acceptable.  Under new Covid Rules, they have recently allowed video evidence to be used for the witnesses who also must wet sign the original document, whereas usually they also must be present at the time of signing.  There is no sign of this changing at this point.

With that in mind, when you complete a Will with Safeguard Wills Ltd, we offer you the option to securely store that original document here in our secure storage for safe keeping. 

We then send your executors (who are not your partner) where the Will is stored and instructions to retrieve it when the need arises.  The details of your Will are also registered with “Certainty”, the National Will Register. 

You are also welcome to store other valuable documents such as house deeds, Insurance certificates or other one off paperwork with it, where it then goes into fire and water proof pouch. 

You are welcome to deposit and retrieve any document as often as required whist you hold the service with us.