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How To Really Screw Up Your Will (And What You Can Do If This Is Not Your Goal)

It really isn’t too difficult to leave behind a legal, financial and logistical mess big enough to make your heirs shake their fists to the heavens; for many of us, life is complicated, as are our financial affairs. We may have creditor issues, blended families, squabbling relatives, businesses, cabins, assets earmarked for some but not all heirs, disabled heirs, and children with addictions and crappy marriages or those with a general inability to see a dollar without spending it. Accordingly, if any of these or the many other things that make life so befuddling apply, how realistic is it to rely upon a Will Kit bought at Staples or whatever professional charges the least to tie up all loose ends when you finally get the chance to find out whether there really is an afterlife? I’ll leave it to you to decide but do ask that you bear with me for a few more pages before making your decision.

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