During a person’s lifetime s/he will gather assets, in other words, belongings such as a house or a motor vehicle. A person will also gather liabilities, in other words, credit such as a home or motor vehicle loan.

If a person (“deceased”) dies without a Will, his/her deceased estate (the assets s/he owned at time of death) will be distributed in terms of the Intestate Succession Act (“Act”). This is also known as the rules of intestate succession.

A Will is a document in which a person ("testator”) makes sure that his/her belongings are distributed in accordance with his/her wishes after his/her death.

Sleeping Beauty heard from her friends that she must make a Will in order to provide for her family after her death. She does not know how to make a Will and what the requirements are for her Will to be valid.