Wills

[lance]

Someone told me today that you dont have to go to a solicitor to get a will made out you can just go to a notary and they do it all, is this correct,sensible answers only please thankyou.

[Eric]

Do a search Lance, this has been done over and over, plus all the problems with wills here.  You will need a few hours to read through them all

[lance]

Have done search found plenty on wills but nothing about notaries doing them for you.

[captainjon]

Hi Lance,Simply said yes!You can do what you like with everything but property.Immovable assets (houses) have to follow Turkish dictates.So if you have ANY relatives from children to sisters, all can make a claim if they so choose and the judge at the final hearing is the man who decides.Eric is absolutely right do a Big search in CBF, followed by Turkish guv site review.When you have read all of that go and see Kori at Atak translations who will precie it for you and do the translation that the Notare will accept as legal???maybe??? good luck J

[captainjon]

Oh, and make sure at the notare you have TWO turkish witnesses or the will is void.

[Scunner]

Make sure when searching CBF for Wills that there isn't anything about someone called Harry. That Wills is something else Lance

[geordieboy]

Made our wills approx 2yrs ago,no solicitor involved,at the notary,as stated two Turkish witnesses,and a translator.Write out your respective will/s beforehand,get them translated into Turkish,witnessed and pay the fee for each persons will.If memory serves me correctly the fee for each person was approx 500 TL.The will you have made out,and the Turkish translated one are both notarised.
I personally know of a lady whose husband died a short while ago intestate,and believe me you would'nt believe the hassle she's going through sorting things out,bank accounts frozen,trying to sell the car,etc.
A word of advise if you do a will,do'nt just word it " I leave all my worldly goods",be specific,put down bank accounts,vehicles,and all assets,even if the tapu on the property is in joint names,name the other name.

[saoirse]

I have read recently of a couple who stated that making a will regardless of who you use etc is a waste of time as Turkish law prevails and the carve up will be as per Turkish law only

This is what happened when they went to a solicitor recently-

My husband and I, armed with our £200 (£100 per will) went off to make our wills today.

Before starting the process, the lawyer explained the Turkish law. Basically:

*If my husband dies, I (wife) get 1/4 and the children get 3/4 (divided up equally between them - if the children are young, the remaining parent will have control of the money until they are of age).

*If me and my husband die, the children get 100%.

*If my husband and all children die, I (wife) get 50% and his parents get 50% (to divide between themselves if divorced)

*If we all die (adults and children), mine and my husbands parents will get 50% share. If they are dead it passes onto any brothers or sisters.

He explained that this is 'just what happens' in Turkey. When we explained that we might want to leave some money to an Aunty - he said it just would not happen!! (he suggested that we could sign everything over to her now and then hope she didn't die before us as everything would go to her children/husband!!!!lol)

He said that, if we wished, we could make a will (in English and Turkish) and have it noterized, but that it would never be carried out, if it varied too much from above situations!

The only way you might be able to get around it is; i.e., if the money goes to the parents (and you want all the money to go to your wife/husband) the parents have to sign a declaration saying they do not want the money.

We were quite stunned after talking with him for nearly an hour (and going over the above quite a few times!) he said that he did not want to take our money under any 'false' information, because if we did do a will giving some money to distant relatives, the only way to have our wishes followed would be to fight it in court (and up until now the Turkish courts have said it's the Turkish way and 'we know better than you where your money goes!!!')

So we left with our money still in our pocket - a rare thing in Turkey!! lol

[littlereddevil]

Looks like we will have to sell up before we are ready to pop our clogs!

[Jacqui Harvey]

We were updating our Wills in Scotland and mentioned to our Solicitor that we had a property in Turkey, he told us to make a Turkish Will and let him have a copy.   We have read all the comments about Turkish Wills, however, we decided it's better to have one that just to leave the property in Turkey with no details of who we want to leave it to.
Perhaps the Turkish system is not the best, but I prefer to have the Wills.