If my will can be contested, why should I have one?

Your will is the written record of your intentions as to whom you would like to receive your assets when you die. No other document formally and legally recognises your intentions the way that your will does.

The only way a person who is not named as a beneficiary in a will can receive a benefit from the estate, is if all of the named beneficiaries agree to that person receiving something or if a judge makes a court order to that effect.