do you need a lawyer to write out a will?

Most large book stores have will kits that you can use. If you have assets over (say) 200,000 or you have feelings about how your burial is to be handled, it is a good idea to get a will made to see what the wording looks like in your jurisdiction.

Then if you want to rewrite it to suit yourself, you can do so because your lawyer has gone to the trouble to make it as iron clad as possible.

My mother labeled all her belongings so that my brother and I would not fight about it. I feel that is a good idea as well even though neither of us had any interest in what she left. Some of it was pretty valuable, like her jewelery. But neither of us cared. We wound up giving it to our children.

As much as anything, you need a trusted executor/executrix. Remember that one of the functions of a will is to give people the right to turn off the utilities and deal with bank deposits. Both institutions can be a pain.

I have been the executor of an estate that had no will. I can tell your that I would deal with that problem again on the 12th of never. So to spare your family grief, have something in place. Your most dependable relative may curse you over your grave if they have to deal with selling a house, shutting off the water, and getting money out of a bank account (if they can even find out where your bank accounts are) or all the other things that wills cover that you don't know about.

My advice to say it again. Get it done once the right way. Then rewrite it when you need to.

No, but Lawyers are usually sufficiently competent to ensure that there are no legal errors that might invalidate your will if it is contested after your death

Many people have saved a few hundred pounds by writing their own wills, and then it is only their loved ones who occasionally lose out to malicious gold-diggers in the long run.

Not necessarily, but you need to to confirm and log it once it is written.

THey also have to witness you signing it and saying its real.

no... but you need a lawyers help

should probably be verified by someone so it's not contested

NO