Prepare your own will

Why Do You Need a Will?

Reasons for Having a Will

To Avoid Having the State Decide Who Will Receive Your Property

To Appoint an Executor Who Will Administer Your Property

To Appoint a Guardian for Your Minor Children

To Appoint a Guardian or Trustee to Administer Property for a Minor Child

To Disinherit a Child or Other Relative

To Accomplish Other Results

Planning Your Will

Qualifications for Having a Will

Other Estate Planning Tools

Avoiding Probate

Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship

Living or Revocable Trusts

Life Insurance

Payable-on-death Bank Accounts

Reducing Taxes

Healthcare Concerns

Living Will

Health Care Power of Attorney

Steps in Preparing Your Will

Property Questionnaire

What Property May You Dispose of with Your Will?

Community Property States

Common-Law Property States

Federal Estate Taxes and State Inheritance and Estate Taxes

Property Questionnaire Instructions

Property Questionnaire

What Are Your Assets?

What Are Your Liabilities?

Net Worth of Your Estate

Beneficiary Questionnaire

Who May Be a Beneficiary?

What Types of Gifts May You Make?

Beneficiary Questionnaire

Who Will Receive Which of Your Assets?

Are There Any Other Relatives, Friends, Or Organizations to Whom You Wish to Leave Gifts?

Are There Any Persons Whom You Wish to Specifically Leave Out of Your Will?

Information for the Executor

Overview of a Typical Probate Proceeding

Choosing an Executor

Executor Duties Checklist Instructions

Executor Duties Checklist

Immediate Executor Duties

Executor Duties within First Month

Executor Financial Duties

Executor Information Checklist Instructions

Executor Information Checklist

Location of Records

Funeral or Cremation Arrangements

Persons, Businesses, and Organizations to Contact

Relatives to Contact

Friends to Contact

Newspaper Obituary Information

Will Clauses

Title Clause

Identification Clause

Marital Status Clauses

Children Identification Clause

Grandchildren Identification Clause

Entire Estate Gift Clause

Specific Gifts Clause

Residuary Clause

Debt Forgiveness Clause

Survivorship Clause

Disinheritance Clause

Executor Clause

Guardianship Clause

Children's Trust Fund Clause

Organ Donation Clause

Funeral Arrangements Clause

Cremation Arrangements Clause

Signature, Witness, and Notary Clauses

Pre-Assembled Wills

Instructions for Will for Married Person with Children (Using Children's Trust)

Will for Married Person with Children (Using Children's Trust)

Instructions for Will for Single Person with Children (Using Children's Trust)

Will for Single Person with Children (Using Children's Trust)

Instructions for Will for Married Person with No Children

Will for Married Person with No Children

Instructions for Will for Single Person with No Children

Will for Single Person with No Children

Sample Will

Last Will and Testament of Mary Ellen Smith

Preparing Your Will

Instructions for Preparing Your Will

Signing Your Will

Instructions for Signing Your Will

Safeguarding Your Will

Changing Your Will

Instructions for Changing Your Will

Codicil

Preparing a Living Will

Instructions for Preparing and Signing a Living Will

Living Will

Revoking Your Living Will

Revocation of Living Will

Preparing a Health Care Power of Attorney

Health Care Power of Attorney

Instructions for Revocation of Health Care Power of Attorney

Revocation of Health Care Power of Attorney

State Laws Relating to Wills and Living Wills

Property Questionnaire

Beneficiary Questionnaire

Executor Duties Checklist

Executor Information Checklist

Will for Married Person with Children

Will for Single Person with Children

Will for Married Person with No Children

Will for Single Person with No Children

Codicil

Living Will and Directive to Physicians

Revocation of Living Will

Health Care Power of Attorney

Revocation of Health Care Power of Attorney

Children's Identification Clause

Children's Trust Fund Clause

Cremation Arrangements Clause

Debt Forgiveness Clause

Disinheritance Clause

Entire Estate Gift Clause

Executor Clause

Funeral Arrangements Clause

Grandchildren Identification Clause

Guardianship Clause

Identification Clause

Marital Status Clauses

Organ Donation Clause

Residuary Clause

Signature and Witness Clause

Specific Gifts Clause

Survivorship Clause

Title Clause.