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Your Will is a very powerful and important document. It directs the court about who will be in charge of your estate and where you want things to go. If you don’t decide, someone else may have to do it for you.

Be prepared and call us today, let us prepare your LAST WILL & TESTAMENT for you.

Can you remember your last three day weekend? Didn't it just fly by? Imagine, when you are no longer breathing, your family members have about three days to make some major decisions. Why not make it easier for them by being prepared?

Do-It-Yourself Legal Offers

Will packages include:

Last Will & Testament

Health Care Directive

Notary Service

$185.00

Health Care Directives state if you are diagnosed with a terminal condition or in a permanent unconscious condition that you have the option to selecting whether or not you want to be provided with artificial nutrition and hydration.

None of us have a crystal ball, these are personal decisions that are yours alone to make. Do not burden others with making them for you. Just as you wouldn't want to be responsible for making these decisions for someone else, someone else shouldn't be in the position to make them for you.

We at Do-It-Yourself Legal can prepare your simple will. Call for your FREE 20 minute consultation to discuss planning your estate.

REQUIREMENTS

Any person over the age of 18 can execute his/her own Will. Do-It-Yourself Legal prepares these legal documents for you, for your review, which:

Revokes all previously-made wills
Disposes of property; and
Wills are signed in front of two witnesses

After death, a probate proceeding may be initiated. If no will is found then inheritance will occur under the laws of intestacy will be followed according to state law.

REVOCATION

To revoke or make a Last Will and Testament invalid you can:

Destroy the original will; or
Sign a NEW Last Will and Testament, which revokes the old will.

Though most people are aware they need a Last Will & Testament, it is reported by Consumer Reports that as many as 66% of Americans, do not have a Will. Do-It-Yourself Legal offers an affordable alternative.

LETTER OF INTENTION

To ensure that life is easier for the ones you leave behind, get organized. In most circumstances your family will have about three days to make some major decisions at a time when everyone wants to put life on hold.

Your Last Will and Testament should state that “I have left a hand-written list...” This is a letter you write to the people you name to be in charge of handling your affairs. A letter of intention should accompany your will; however, it is not a legal document - it is a letter to the individuals you have elected to be in charge. When you choose someone to be in charge of handling your affairs that person is referred to as a Personal Representative or Executor/Executrix. This is what you will need to make their job easier:

A list of assets (residence, vehicles, retirement plans, bank accounts, and so forth)
Identify which assets are liquid assets (anything that has immediate cash value)
List other personal property (jewelry, furnishings, antiques, and so forth)
List Business property or business interests
Real Estate, including identifying information
A list of all of your debts

The person you appoint to be in charge, your Personal Representative, needs to know:

The location of important documents including your Last Will and Testament.
Anyone that you would want notified if something were to happen to you.

Your letter of intention needs to include the personal property you want given to which family members, friends, and/or charities. State why you want the item to go to that person, the history behind it and any other information that would be beneficial. For instance say you have a family heirloom such as a grandfather clock that you want to pass down. You would want to write a letter to the person you want to have that item, giving the history of the item. This will help your family to carry out your desires as well as reminding them of the importance each item held.

Letters of intention should also state if you want to be buried or cremated - do you have a specific idea of where and how? You are choosing someone you trust, and you want to make it clear that you are trusting their decisions, but that these are your ideas.

We encourage you to read and review your package of details two times a year such as when you change the clock for day light savings time.

There are three easy steps to success:

1) Start

2) Continue

3) Finish

So...

1) Schedule your FREE appointment with Do-It-Yourself Legal to draw up your will.

2) Take the time to write your Letter of Intention. Check up on it twice a year and update the information as necessary. This will prevent relatives from going on a wild goose chase for some item you got rid of years earlier!

3) Make sure you are clear about what the people you leave in charge need to know about your life. If you were to step into your neighbor’s shoes and carry on their life -what would you need to know?

At Do-It-Yourself Legal we want to assist you in preparing for a future that someone you love will have to sift through.