{"id":7923,"date":"2018-10-23T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=7923"},"modified":"2018-10-16T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:02:42","slug":"crazy-but-true-provisions-in-last-wills-and-testaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/crazy-but-true-provisions-in-last-wills-and-testaments\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAZY BUT TRUE PROVISIONS IN LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">By, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/lane-v-erickson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lane V. Erickson<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Having been an estate planning attorney now for nearly 20 years, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work with a number of different individuals and creating their personal estate plans. Sometimes I have clients who want to do some interesting things with their last will and testament. I will say however I have not yet had anybody come to me with any of what I would call crazy ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Georgia',serif;\">Having said that, my research recently led me to an article that was published by The Guardian in August of 2015. This article listed what it called Ten of the Strangest Wills of All Time. Here are a few of the entries that were listed in this article:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/crazy-but-true-provisions-in-last-wills-and-testaments\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading CRAZY BUT TRUE PROVISIONS IN LAST WILLS AND TESTAMENTS\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By, Lane V. Erickson, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney Having been an estate planning attorney now for nearly 20 years, I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work with a number of different individuals and creating their personal estate plans. Sometimes I have clients who want to do some interesting things with their last will and testament. 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