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Are Do-it-yourself Wills Ever Ok?
I’d like to talk a little bit about do-it-yourself wills., but not necessarily in the way that you might think. One thing that estate planning attorneys –especially those who blog and tweet– like to rail about are online and store bought do-it-yourself wills. LegalZoom is …
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The Wall Street Journal Totally Blows it on Online Wills
I can’t believe it. I have long admired the Wall Street Journal and considered them a paragon of straightforward and relatively high level journalism. Sure the editorial page leans conservative, and there has always been a general pro-corporate tinge to its stories. But I’ve always …
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HOW You Sign a Will Can Be Just as Important as What It Says
I have written in the past about the dangers of "do it yourself" wills. I have pointed out all of the traps for the unwary regarding Homestead, the Surviving Spouse, and Pretermitted Heirs. One thing I haven’t written about is the danger of improperly signing …
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Surge in Online Wills Possible — This is not a good thing
Professor Beyer over at the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog links to an article in L.A. Times titled, Wrangling over Michael Jackson’s Estate could revive sales of online wills. While it is a good thing for people who have no estate planning documents to take …
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My Internet Will/Trust Experiment Part 4: What type of Trust do I want?
I apologize for not updating this, my continuing series (and my blog in general) in which I order estate planning documents from an Internet document service. As I previously wrote, I attended the ABA Techshow in Chicago, and got sick when I came back. Between …
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Quick Update from the Techshow
I am still in Chicago for the ABA Techshow, which bills itself as "The World’s Premier Legal Technology Conference and Expo. Aside from meeting a number of great people from all over the country, I also learned quite a bit. As a solo practitioner, my …
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My Internet Will/Trust Experiment Part 3: I choose what Documents I want
This is the third article in a continuing series in which I order estate planning documents from an internet document service to see their quality. When we last left our hero, I had just clicked on the link from the main page that said "Wills …
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Internet Documents Update: I Received Emailed Copies of My Trust
This isn’t an "official" entry in my ongoing series, but just a quick update. Yesterday I emailed the internet document company asking about the status of my documents. Today I received an email telling me that, "as a courtesy" they are sending my PDF copies …
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My Website Internet Will/Trust Experiment Part 2: Logging on
As I posted in my last post, I decided to go to an internet website that purports to provide wills and trusts (among other things), to see how good their service really is, and whether they are properly helping their customers. I will not say …
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