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Do you have a will? Do we need one? What if I have nothing? Why should I have a will? How does Kiwisaver relate to wills

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  Do you have a will?  Should you have a will?  Why should I have a will when I own buggar all? These are great questions to ask yourself.  When I teach my classes, I ask people to stick up their hands if they have a will.  Very few of them have.  I get all sorts of justifications for this, mostly they believe they have nothing to leave anyone.  Some think they are young so it doesn't matter.  Others think they have no children so it is irrelevant.  I am here to tell you it is very relevant.  If this is the only post on my blog you read in full, my job here is done! This may sound like a morbid subject but it is quite the opposite.  People would like to think their families are looked after when we die.  They like to think there is enough money to pay for the funeral and sort out all the affairs.  Sometimes they have even gone to the extreme of taking out insurances to that effect, at great personal cost over their lives. ...