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Choose an online legal services provider or locate a will template. Carefully consider your distribution wishes. Identify a personal representative/executor. Understand the requirements to make your will legal. Make sure someone else knows about your will. Consult a lawyer if you have a more complicated estate.

Destroy ItTearing, burning, shredding or otherwise destroying a will makes it null and void, according to the law office of Barrera Sanchez & Associates. The testator might do this personally or order someone else to do it while he witnesses the act.

It can be challenged on seven grounds: lack of testamentary capacity, lack of testamentary intention, lack of knowledge or approval, undue influence, fraud or forgery, revocation (familial claims), and if it lacks in execution.

Invalid execution of the will This can include circumstances where witnesses to the will have not witnessed the testator signing the will or acknowledged his signature in his presence. The witnesses must not be beneficiaries (or the spouse/civil partner of the beneficiary) to the will as this renders the will void.

Wills Don't ExpireThere's no expiration date on a will. If a will was validly executed 40 years ago, it's still valid.

Fraud or Undue Influence A nonfamily caregiver forcing the testator to leave them an inheritance. A family member getting the testator to sign a will by pretending it is just a general legal document that needs a signature.

You can either download a template (many are free) and write your Will at your own pace offline using your word processor, or tell us your wishes in our online questionnaire and let us write it for you.

Decide what to include in your will. Be specific about where all of your stuff goes. Select your beneficiaries. Choose an executor for your will. Name guardians for your children. Sign your will in front of witnesses. Let everyone know beforehand. Store your will in a legacy drawer.

It is a felony to hide, secret or destroy a decedent's will.

While the testator (will writer) is alive, there's nothing stopping them from letting you know that you're named in the will, or even showing it to you. It's probably not uncommon for someone to disclose the details of their will to their spouse or child or give them a copy.