{"id":8081,"date":"2020-01-07T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=8081"},"modified":"2020-01-03T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T00:08:40","slug":"should-you-do-a-joint-will-with-your-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/should-you-do-a-joint-will-with-your-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOULD YOU DO A JOINT WILL WITH YOUR SPOUSE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney<\/p>\n

Estate planning, and coming up with a written estate plan, doesn’t need to be difficult. When you have the right help, and you are doing it the right way, it can actually be a fairly simple process. However, many well-meaning individuals often seek to do their own estate plan or to have it done by individuals who are not experienced. When this happens, mistakes begin to occur that can have a big impact on how a person’s estate is distributed after they are gone.<\/p>\n

One of the things that I’ve seen coming up more recently, is when a husband and wife do a joint last will and testament. In other words, rather than each of the spouses having their own separate last will and testament, they create a joint last will and testament that both of them sign, have witnessed, and then have notarized.<\/p>\n

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