Read the whole thing or pay a lawyer forty quid to read it for you. That's the obvious part. The less obvious part is that I knew, somewhere, that I was skipping it on purpose. I didn't want information that might make me say no when I needed to say yes. I'm not sure reading it would have changed the decision. That's the bit I keep coming back to.
I keep going back and forth on whether we actually missed a window or whether the window closed before we even knew to look for it. Some days it feels like a clear failure of planning, the kind I would have caught in a codebase. Other days I think maybe it wouldn't have mattered, maybe the timeline was always going to be what it was. I don't know. I genuinely don't.
A will isn't something you need because you're wealthy. It's more like, it's a thing you do so the people who are already going to be having the worst few weeks of their lives don't also have to guess. I had the whole thing backwards. I thought it was about assets. It's about not leaving people with questions they can't answer.