Posts Tagged ‘last will and testament’
How does one write a last will and testimony and living will?
Although life is awesome there are no guarentees and no safety nets and I feel it is good to be prepared in the case of a loss.
How does one go about making a last will and testament and a living will? Do you need an attorney or a notary republic to approve this? In addition if the married couple does not have chldren nor plans to ever have children how should the estate be divided up?
Who makes the best excecutor of the estate you have?
Is this hard to do?
What does a court do there are multiple conflicting undated versions of a last will and testament?
Imagine the following scenario: A billionaire dies and leaves behind 15 different copies of a last will and testament. All the copies were made out on the same day before the same lawyer and witnesses, but this was done years ago and they can’t remember which one was made out last. Given that the court is legally forced to act on the contents of A will, which will will it choose?
And my second question: If a man is missing and pronounced legally dead and his property divided, but he later returns from the wilderness very much alive – will his property be legally returned to him?
What’s the difference between a will and a testament?
Why are they always in the phrase together, "last will and testament?" What’s the difference exactly? Can you have one without the other? My concern is who would become guardian of my child, not who would inherit any assets.
Is it enough to have a Notary Public notarize a last will and testament, or are witnesses needed as well?
My father lives in California and he has drafted a last will and testament which he plans to sign in the presence of a notary public, however, I’ve heard that a will needs to be signed in the presence of 3 witnesses and that in California a notary public is not even necessary. He wants to do the opposite though, have it ONLY notarized, without any additional witnesses (the only people he trusts as witnesses are mentioned as beneficiaries on the will and therefore cannot be used as witnesses). Would it still be a legal will?
Is this legal to have this in a last will and testament?
My mother is a very superficial and controlling person and seems to think she can control me (43 year old daughter) even after her death.
Anyway, everytime she gets on a plane, she writes a short "will" in a sealed envelope only to be opened after the plane crashes (lol). One day I was cleaning my office, and I had one of these envelopes laying around for a while well after her flight was over. I opened it and was ticked off that she had such nerve. She wishes the money I receive from the sale of her property be used so that my husband and I can buy a house to move out of the town we now live in (middle and lower middle income, hispanic/black and white) and move to one of the towns she listed in her envelope (mostly white, upper middle income).
Is this legal and can it be upheld in a court of law? Would I not get any money if we did not sell our house and move?
Also, if she tried to write this into an official last will and testament with a lawyer, would he laugh at her?
Would we not get any money if we didn’t move? I’m not moving anyway, but just wanted to know.
Thank you!