When it comes to selecting forms for last will and testament, you need to be careful. Don’t just choose the first website or legal documents you find online. Do your research. Check out the company supplying the forms for last will and testament and also the quality of the forms. Also check out any customer reviews you can find.

Standard forms for last will and testament typically include the following:

• Preamble* – sets out the name and addresses of the person making a will.
• Revocation* – revokes all previous wills and codicils made by the will maker.
• Executor* – appoints one or more persons (known as executors of a will or personal representatives) to ‘wind up’ the will maker’s estate following his or her death.
• Survivorship –requires beneficiaries under a will to survive the will maker by a fixed period, such as 30 days, before becoming entitled to inherit under the will maker’s last will. This clause is commonly used in connection with gifts made between spouses and serves as a means of reducing multiple estate administrations and the possible double payment of estate taxes where both spouses die within a short time of each other.
• Cash Gift (legacy) – makes a gift of cash.
• Specific Property Gift (bequest) – makes a gift of a specific item of property.
• Residue Gift* – makes a gift of the balance of the will maker’s estate after all the cash gifts and specific gifts are made and after all debts and taxes are paid.
• Estate Administration and Expenses – specifies how the will maker’s estate is to pay its debts, expenses, taxes and costs of estate administration.
• UTMA and Child Trusts – creates a type of custodianship or trust to manage property gifted by the will maker to a young beneficiary under his last will and testament.
• Guardianship – nominates guardians and successor guardians to care for the testator’s minor children and to manage property that they might receive.
• Executive Powers* – sets out the powers to be granted to the executors of a will, which will be in addition to any powers that they might be granted under federal or state law.
• Executors’ Fees & Liabilities – specifies whether the executors of a will should be compensated for their work as executors and whether they should be held liable if they negligently cause a depletion in the value of the estate.
• Attestation* – the place where the will maker signs and executes his last will and testament.
• Witnessing* – the place where the witnesses (usually two, sometimes three) sign and attest that they have witnessed the will maker sign his last will in their presence.

The clauses with the asterisk (*) above are clauses that should appear in every will.

How Can EstateBee Help You? 

If you want to make Forms for Last Will and Testament then EstateBee can help you. We offer a number of different make Forms for Last Will and Testament to cover a variety of different circumstances including:

• Form for last will and testament for a person who is single with no children.
• Form for last will and testament for a person who is single with children.
• Form for last will and testament for a person who is married with no children.
• Form for last will and testament for a person who is married with minor children.
• Form for last will and testament for a person who is married with adult children.

All of our wills are approved by lawyers, and suitable for use in all states (except Louisiana). They even contain advanced provisions not included in many forms for last will and testament found online. Better still, if you want to prepare your will and send it to one of our lawyers to double check it, we also offer that Lawyer Review Service.

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