This picture is from a 2010 post about getting our wills made. Earlier this year Andy and I decided we wanted to get a new, more simplified one made. Yeah, sure.
It’s a long story, but the upshot is Saturday morning we received a 90-page Word file containing our wills, power of attorneys, advanced health care directives, etc. for us to approve or correct before we sign them tomorrow morning. Yuck! So I sorted and printed them and we corrected the mistakes in the parts we cared about. Tomorrow we will sign them and keep our fingers crossed that all the lawyerese was done correctly.
Anyway, that’s why I’m writing this post at 11 p.m. At least it will be off our list of things to do. Hurray for that!
September 20, 2021
a simplified file with 90 pages! Wow…
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We rewrote our wills before we went to New Zealand in early January 2019, in case both of us died together. It got a bit long-winded and we finally got our new wills just before the new year. Phew!
It’s a relief to have it done, isn’t it?
90 pages? YIKES. I hate reading any legal paper. I can’t make heads or tails out of it most of the time and it just gives me a headache.
We skimmed over the legal stuff. Hopefully she did it correctly. She did make some mistakes in the parts we cared about, that we were careful about.
We had ours redone just a few years back. Trust me, ours is more simplified!!! Not even close to your number of pages.
I’m happy for you!
now i am wondering how many pages if it were not a simple will. ha ha.. good job getting it update
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I too wonder how many pages if not simple…that would be hard reading for me.
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good grief.
the mind boggles. on the surface it smacks of ‘smoke and mirrors.’
just the thought of it is tiring to me!
I did groan at first. 😀
Seems you would need to read this with a dictioary at hand! We have never re-done ours! And now I am even less inclined to do.
We had to trust her about the legal stuff. We just had to make sure she had the beneficiaries and powers of attorney, etc. correct. She made several mistakes there, which we caught.
It is important though a pain in the ___.
Yes. We’re relieved it is done.