Jade Goody’s Will leaves children secure for life

Posted 09/03/2010

The details of tragic TV personality Jade Goody’s Will have been revealed to a newspaper.

She took advice from estate planning solicitors before her death in 2009 in order to ensure that her two children will receive all of her £3 million fortune, the News of the World states.

Husband Jack Tweed is named as a beneficiary, which will save more than £1 million in inheritance tax as assets passed on through a spouse are not liable, but he will only inherit her £16,000 car.

In contrast, sons Freddie, six, and Bobby, five, will benefit from £312,000 in a Nil Rate Band Trust and a further £2.7 million in a Residuary Trust Fund.

Her executors will be her three best friends.

“All the efforts of her trustees will be towards maximising the amount of money available to the children,” a source told the newspaper.

Goody’s Will is currently being finalised through probate by solicitors and her executors and should be settled within six weeks.

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