[exit82]

In addition to wills, please have the attorney draw up a Durable Power of Attorney and Medical Power of Attorney for each of you, in case of illness or mental incapacity. This is for handling financial and medical issues for the other person if they can no longer do so.

Also, anyone with minor children should have wills that appoint a legal guardian in case the parents together die in an accident/plane crash, that type of thing.

[Jane Long]

Excellent advice, exit.

Have a dear friend who is going through heck, right now, trying to take care of matters for a family member who did NOT have an updated will, or POAs.

Was suddenly/unexpectedly incapacitated. Huge mess, now.

I think estate experts recommend updating all important docs (wills, POAs, etc.) after any major life changes....marriage, divorce, births, deaths...or, at least every 10 years.

[STARLIT]

Thank you. We have the one power of attorney that we had to make before he left..by the way it was in 1967. We married in January of that year and he left 5 months later.