Sally Redux

OK got this and started trying to put my mind to it...I get in a pickle when thinking about what would happen to the children if we both died...can people from UK sort out the will here?

Ray

If they can travel here ...

Finding a executor is difficult obviously you want somebody younger

Sally Redux

That is the hard bit.

Ray

the Kids can be when they are older.. until then is the problem
until then wear your safety belt

Sally Redux

lol yes good idea.

The Horticulturalist

What happens if, as is the case for the forseeable future, the children are UK citizens and the family in the UK want to contest the will, is a US drafted will legally binding in the UK?

I'm getting into hypotheticals here, but if for example my inlaws wanted the children to return to live with them (we wouldn't want that) could they overturn that from the UK?
I don't know who we would appoint guardian yet, but it wouldn't be them

Ray

Probably

Depend on what your US will said.. and who the executor was...
The parents wishes would probably be the most important.
That and the executor is the hardest to find

md95065

Remember that, while you can express your wishes with regard to the children in your will and the courts will undoubtedly give considerable weight to those wishes if they appear to be in the best interests of the children, you ultimately can't control what happens with just a will because your children are not "property" and therefore you can't "leave them" to someone.