Coffins left at solicitors' offices, ashes strewn in wrong locations. It's hard to believe but here's the reason why often-bitter family disputes mean your dying wishes can be ignored

“Coffins left at solicitors' offices, ashes strewn in wrong locations. It's hard to believe but here's the reason why often-bitter family disputes mean your dying wishes can be ignored”

Funeral preferences written into a will are not legally binding, leaving the door open to disagreements over everything from burial plots to the scattering of ashes.