
It isn’t difficult to understand why many are reluctant to sit down to prepare information for the drafting of a Family Will. After all, nobody wants to think about mortality
Yet, mortality confronts us almost every day. When we get into and drive a car, bus, truck. And even at work. While in good health, we rarily think or worry about any consequences that might befall us, believing we are almost immortal.
The WISE ONES, however, know better, because they plan for the UNEXPECTED ! They live their lives as tho every day will be their last days on earth, and take the necessary time to continously plan for the unexpected.
A staff member was motivated to at last draft a Living Will and a Family Will after her friend insisted she get a Will drawn. This staff member all of a sudden realized that if she were to be struck down or incapacited before her pending divorce was final, everything would go to her soon-to-be-ex-husband unless her written Will specified otherwise. That in itself, should have been powerful motivation, but even then procrastination, crept in for some time before she took care of the details for her Will.
This , I will get-to-it-later-attitude, creates risks that are sometimes insurmountable before catastrophe strikes.
Everyone has the freedom to act any day of any week to make a family plan for the protection of their most precious assets. It is now gratifying that Mothers of the World are now stepping to the forefront to initaite Family Wills , because if they don’t do it, _ _ it might not get done.