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Planning for incapacity

The paperwork nobody does until it is urgent, done while it is not.

Who this is for

Neither of you has a will or a power of attorney, and you both know it.

What it is

What each of you would want, stated separately while it is still hypothetical, and a brief a solicitor can act on for powers of attorney and wills, with a list your family can actually find.

The steps, in order

You can take them out of order. Nothing here locks a module, and no step waits on the one before it.

  • Horizon

    Eight things that reorganise a life.

    Illness, incapacity and the end of life, stated while both of you can still state them.

  • Legal Instruments

    What each document does, and what it cannot.

    What a lasting power of attorney does, what a will does, and a brief to hand a solicitor.

  • The Vault

    The index your family cannot find.

    A register of what exists, where it is and who holds it. Deliberately a list, not a document store.

  • Time Capsule

    Letters to whoever you both are by then.

    Letters to whoever you both are by then, encrypted with a passphrase we never receive.

A route, not a gate

A route is a named list of modules with something written down at the end of it. Nothing in a route locks anything, and you can take the steps out of order.

Why a route rather than a list

Thirty-two modules is a lot to look at when you do not yet know which of them you need. A route is somebody having already answered that: these ones, in this order, because the earlier ones give the later ones something to work from. The Structural Report is easier to write an agreement from than a blank page, and it needs two finished Soundings before it exists at all.

What it does not do

It does not lock anything, and it is not a course. Nothing is withheld until you finish a step, there is no schedule, and stopping halfway costs you nothing — what you wrote stays written and the modules stay open. Where a module genuinely needs both of you, that module is what waits, exactly as it would if you had opened it on your own.

What it never shows either of you

A route shows where each of you has got to and nothing else. It does not record how long anything took, or how long the other one has left something undone. Elapsed time is not a number this product prints about a person.