How to find signatures for a will?

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Apparently you need two people to sign your will alongside witness from a qualified solicitor in order for it to be valid. However, those signatories cannot be beneficiaries on your will.

When I searched legal advice pages, they all say to find a trusted confidant like coworkers, church members, advisors, etc. What if you don't have any of these? Is there a way to pay another solicitor or staff member to sign my will for me?

All of my friends will be receiving something in the will, so they are not allowed to sign. Also, I am fairly certain it would tip them off if I asked them to help me procure and legitamize the document, because it is pretty damn rare for a 22 year old to be writing a will out of the blue.

I have thought about what might happen if I simply left the will without signatures. I am terrified all of my assets and possessions would go to my one deadbeat parent who is still living, because I have no other "next of kin".

 

[Rae82]

Where are you? Are you in the UK?

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Where are you? Are you in the UK?

Yes, I am living in the UK, but I am originally from another country, so I am afraid if I don't have proper documentation that all my assets will go to someone I have no contact with on the other side of the world.

 

[Symbiote]

I had the bank managers at my local bank do it for mine.

 

[Seiba]

I googled it as well. It seems I received similar results, friends who are not going to get anything from your estate, neighbors, coworkers, relatives, and doctor. You could possibly pay an attorney to witness your will according to what I found but it mentions them as helping with drafting it. Any random person should be able to sign your will if they don't stand to benefit, aren't mentally/visually impaired and are eighteen or above. It also seems a notary is needed and they can serve as a witness as well. Perhaps take your will to attorney for "help" drafting it and then ask them to be one of the witnesses? There's nothing that says an attorney can't witness. Then you go to get it notarized and ask them to be a witness as well. I imagine the fear of them asking why might be a thing, but you could just tell partially them the truth in that you simply want to make one early just in case and you do not want a deadbeat parent to benefit if you were to pass -- since they are meant to be professional and take money for their services they shouldn't be too nosy and should be willing. Sorry if this is useless, just about about ten minutes looking around since I never looked into this before. I understand the word professional probably has a negative connotation because of the pieces of shit doctors you've dealt with, but I thought considering your situation it might be best since you wrote about people not understanding your illnesses and so forth, bringing forth a will to a random college person you know vaguely could backfire which is why I went the previous route. Sorry you are in a position to have to do this, to already be in pain to want to want to leave and then to have to figure this out so a deadbeat won't benefit unfairly.

 

[LastLoveLetter]

I read online that a solicitor can witness your Will and can bring along a colleague so that you have two witnesses. I have no idea how much this costs, but it's what I am considering doing for my own Will if it isn't prohibitively expensive.