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It’s an uncomfortable topic. Discussing death and what will happen if you die. Sitting down with a new partner, in your brand new flat, discussing making a Will can feel morbid and futile. You’re both young. You’re healthy. You have good jobs, financial stability. But if you don’t have the difficult conversations when it does feel pointless, then it will inevitably be too late to have them at all.

Prenups were once seen as something only for the rich and famous, but they are now becoming increasingly popular for many couples getting married, particularly for those who have built up assets that they wish to protect, or those with complicated family and financial structures.

When new couples talk about the future it’s often sugar-coated with the illusion of fiction. “We’ll have a big white house with a picket fence, four children, and a dog named Max.” In the early throes of a relationship, it’s easy to agree on everything - baby names, houses, what school to send your child to, even what Netflix series to start next. But our lives change daily, and the horizon is never an exacting science.

In September last year, the Scottish Government announced that reverse migration whereby people moved from the rest of the UK to Scotland, had boosted the population by 137,000 in the past two decades. And with more and more people working from home, and a renewed sense of family and community all driven by the recent pandemic, it’s of no surprise that we’re starting to see more and more people moving from England up past the border into the beautiful country that we call home.