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The legal profession says “ If you want to change your Will, DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE ORIGINAL WILL !”
“You can amend your Will by making A NEW WILL.
However, they say “ sometimes it is more convenient or appropriate to amend your Will by creating a document called a CODICIL ( an add-on to the existing Will ). “ “ This document is also subject to the same rules regarding required signatures and execution as apply to your Will”.
Most every page on the website (www.worldregistryofwills.com ) strongly urges individuals and families to invlove your lawyer or other trained legal professional when having your Will drafted. The blog ( www.worldregistryofwillsblog.com ) also offers timely and usable information to guide you.
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If you are one of the 20% in the world who have a Will that can be found when needed,……the legal profession says:
Yes…..it is possible. Your Will might be revoked automatically by what you do ( e.i. a change in marital status ) depending on the jurisdiction in which you live.! And that is why the legal profession strongly urges people to REVIEW their Wills every two years.
This blog always urges individuals to work with a good legal professional of their choice because they can make you aware of all the regulations that you should be aware of.
But, Remember…..an emergency hand-written Will should be written , and it’s location revealed to the family, while you wait to get to your legal professional. It is called a Holographic Will, and it’s location too, can be registered with the worlds wills locations registry.
Finally addressing the necessity of drafting your WILL today…..will make a tremendous difference in the tomorrow’s of your spouse and children.
Here is why,….. and we quote from a press story about actor Mark Ruffalo co-star with Leonardo DiCaprio in “ Shutter Island “.
Mr. Ruffalo said “ he cheated death and learned to love life “, after beating a brain tumor that threatened his life and paralyzed his face for a time, after a grueling 10 hr operation to remove a very rare and slow growing tumor called an acoustic neuroma.” “ In a weird way”, he says “ it turned out to be an enormous gift. “ “ It was absolute hell, but out of it I got my priorities straight. !”
In response to a reporter’ question,…” I guess that kind of devastating news makes you realize we all have a limited time on this planet ?, He replied “ Oh, yes. All of a sudden, time is real. When you’re young, you don’t live with the idea of a finite amount. “ “ Now you realize you could be dead if something goes slightly the wrong way.” “ That’s pretty startling. !”
The World Registry Of Wills, strongly endorses the legal professional’s urgent warning to all individuals to make every attempt to get a Will prepared as early as possible to protect against any undue circumstances. It doesn’t matter, young or old.
We don’t know if Mr. Ruffalo had a Will prepared before his terrible news, but we hope that has now been corrected.
Dire consequences has conquered many, many families, who were left without a designed road map for their future . THAT ELUSIVE FAMILY WILL…!
Please don’t add your name to that list?
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and in the nick of time his doctor said.!
This young 38 yr old accountant with a wife and two children, a beautiful new home, two cars, a lake cottage and all the electronics to play with went for his annual physical to his doctor. Never having been really sick during most of his years, he went to a newer doctor in town as his former doctor retired.
Much to his horror, he was told after an MRI, he had a brain aneurysm, and further the on-set of type 2 diabetes.! ( Two Silent Creeping killers ) if not detected and treated. There is usually no warning pain signals.
When everything seemed to be going beautifully for the family, this came right out of the blue, and one can imagine the mental emotions going home to tell his wife.
He was told some people can live with an aneurysm, and some might have two .They can be treated and followed up with MRI’s ever so often. The risk of course….is when they burst, then, most everyone knows the answer to that.
There is no radiation involved with an MRI says Dr. Paul Donohue. ” Magnetic resonance imaging doesn’t involve radiation. It involves magnets and magnetic fields.” He says “a brain aneurysm is like an aneurysm on any other body artery. It’s a bulge, and it represents a weak spot. Actually it’s more like a blister.” “ And all aneurysms have an inherent RISK of BURSTING and causing brisk bleeding.” “ There is a danger anywhere in the body, but in the brain, it is often calamitous.! “ He told the young man his aneurysm was discovered by chance through his medical and MRI , and that is how many are discovered. “ He said few aneurysms produce symptoms before they actually burst.” “ Many, many remain silent for all of life. “.!
“YES….there is a chance for treatment if discovered in time,” says Dr. Donohue.
The good message here is get your annual physical asking for a thorough top to bottom.
Diabetes and brain aneurysms are are silent creepers giving little warning of trouble.
This again raises the question, “ Do you have a Will prepared, and does your family know where it is at ? “
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Living Wills
The question was “ I’m almost 60 but feel like I’m worse off than I was earlier in my career.” “ Retiring is impossible as I’m still supporting a family. “” How can I relieve these pressures?”
Susan Pinker ( spinker@globeandmail.com ) ” suggests you command yourself to set firmer boundaries around your personal time, some of which you should use to gain a little perspective.” “ Your challenge is to gain a sense of proportion while protecting some needed leisure time as a reward for your efforts to date. “
“One way to acquire perspective is to consider the working lives of your parents and grandparents. On average, mid-career individuals are out-earning, out-living,, and enjoying far more luxurious lives than their ancestors did throughout the world and expect to live one-third longer. ”
Dr. Matt Ridley in his book ( The Rational Optimist ), ” shows that our lives , including our working lives are improving dramatically with each generation. Rich or poor, three-quarters of us now have cellphones, televisions, cars, and live a life of untold largesse according to the standards of the 1920s through 1950s.” “In 2005, compared with 1955, the average human being, earned nearly three times as much money.”
Psychologist Susan Spinker offers, “happiness and ideas about success hinge on context and your current mindset. “ “Our level of satisfaction is tied to our perception of how we’re doing in relation to relatives and freinds.”. “What we’re convinced will thrill us in the future—a new home, a new car—early retirement, usually doesn’t.
These round-the-clock pressures can sap your soul . ONLY IF YOU LET THEM.!
One of these utmost stress levels has been determined due to the failure of individuals and parents to have finalized a Family Will, and yet, it is the easiest and simplist endeavor to accomplish.
It is one thing to over-come obstacles put in front of you by circumstances,…..but for gracious sake……DON”T CREATE YOUR OWN OBSTACLES .
If your loving wife and children are your main focus in life, show your devotion by leaving a proper road map ( WILL ) to follow for their futures.
That will eliminate more stress than one can ever imagine for the whole family and all your relatives.
Will planning
is the one who recognizes and seizes the right moment. ( says Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe ) to collect all family together at an evening meal and announce that this week-end we will gather following dinner to start to lay out the instructions we will want in our family Will.
This person, in control, will advise family members to be prepared with input into the discussion and planning about the distribution of assets amongst all family members. This person will want to hear from each family member about their desires that may end up on paper in the family WILL.
This person, the right person, is taking a wonderful attitude with his family to begin the planning of the family’s Will.
When that eventful day arrives, and there is the reading of the Will, there will be complete comfort with all knowing how the assets will be distributed without quarrel.
How nice……oh, how nice it would be for all families to handle this important task in this manner. Will you tell your friends about this attitude please ?
Was, Is, a government committment declaring educational opportunities for all children.
How well this endeavor is unfolding has not been followed up with any reports as yet.
Now, if parents would adopt and adhere to this request, they would sit down today to address their part in guiding and protecting their children and their futures by taking care of the details to draft up their Will information to present to the legal professional of their choice to have a final Will drafted. Being conscious of their children’s education is honorable but expected. But providing their education to young adults, is not the only compulsory task parents have, because if there is no road map to follow when either parent is prematurally missing, havoc can be created for their futures.
We urge you to avoid leaving them hanging. Write out exactly what you would want them all to do if and when that day comes. It is not only the right thing to do , but the honorable thing to do. But, above all…the smartest thing to do.
It will give them a better launching pad, rather than a pool of discontent and unhappiness.
Even an emergency Will is better than no Will at all. ( Holographic )
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Some of these people had healthy assets, and some in their positions should have had legal professionals able to help them with a Will if asked. But they put it off to get to it later , but never made it.
Among the notables who died either without a valid Will or no Will at all are :
Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Fox, Mary Fran, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holliday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Huges, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Timm, Ritchie Valens, Herve Villechaize, Barry White, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Elvis Presley.
Anna Nicole Smith sued the estate of her late billionaire husband, because she told the court her husband of just over a year had promised her 300 million dollars for her and her daughter ( by another man ). She made the fatal mistake of not getting it in writing and the husbands late son’s estate successfully argued against it. Smith and her daughter received nothing other than the amount of seven million dollars while she lived with him.
This is a partial list of people who were apparently too busy to address this simple, but oh so important task of having their Wills prepared.
Are you now going to have your name added to a list like this….?
We implore you to take the time to at least write a hand-written Will ( called a Holographic Will ) until you can get to a legal professional to finalize a formal Will.
YOU OWE IT TO YOUR SPOUSE AND FAMILY. !
Life…..has a way of interupting our best plans.!
And Life Changing Decisions May Happen Anytime. Quite often…without any warning.!
There is nothing that makes a person more quickly REFOCUS priorities in life, until faced with reality that they may only have a limited time to live.
If you have taken the time to prepare a Will for your family, it is a given that you have thought about the unexpected and are prepared for any unexpected happenings.
Providing a road map for your family members to follow when you are not here , is not morbid. It is just very good thinking about their future protection.
You probably had heard about the chaos and disasters that have occured in family’s when there was no Will. Whether there was ever a Will, and/or it could not be found.
You are to be congratulated for being so prepared, and please tell all your friends and neighbors to start being as prepared.
Life threatening events like sickness, accidents or premature end of life, do not operate by any calender.
They just happen.
There are many smart parents who have built-in plans for such emergencies,……however, unfortunately , there are way to many who have yet to do so.
With respect, we invite them to browse the website (www.worldregistryofwills.com ) for a complete understanding of the potential risks invloved if there is no Family Will and no location given as to where that Will is located,….if there was one.
Good intentions are fine……..but the action is more final and rewarding for the family members.