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    Lawyer Advice Needed

    I need to make a quick change to my will. Its a pretty basic document that I paid $75 to have prepared 8 years ago. I need to change the guardian of my children before I go on a trip Friday. What is the best way to go about doing this. Can I just change the document with a witness present or do I have to have something re-written.

    Thanks
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  • #2
    Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

    I'm not a lawyer, but it sounds like you better not go on that trip!

    Seriously though, I'd think as long as you have a witness (do they have to be a notary public?) you would be able to change it anytime.
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    • #3
      Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

      That was my thought there rowdy. Could I just get a notary to do it or do I have to have another method
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      • #4
        Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

        Changing Your Will

        (Advice which is worth what you've paid for it, I'm sure . . .)
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        • #5
          Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

          Call a lawyer where you live.

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          • #6
            Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

            Originally posted by JackJD View Post
            Call a lawyer where you live.
            That sounds like lawlery advice to me...
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            • #7
              Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

              Originally posted by SF_Rabbit_Fan View Post
              That sounds like lawlery advice to me...

              I'm sending him a bill.

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              • #8
                Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                kinda what I was expecting if I saw a lawyer first. That's why I came here, and whattya know, the bill is still coming.
                "The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all."
                -Leo Rosten

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                • #9
                  Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                  Originally posted by JackJD View Post
                  I'm sending him a bill.
                  Of course. Why wouldn't you?
                  “I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems scary and wierd. It’ll happen to you.” — Abe Simpson

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                  • #10
                    Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                    Reminds me of an old one:

                    A doctor and a lawyer were making small talk at a cocktail party. A woman approaches the doctor and starts discussing a medical condition with him, asking him what she should do about it. The doctor gives her some advice in the 10-minute convesation and the woman thanks him and walks away.

                    Doc: "I get that all the time and it really bothers me when I'm trying to just enjoy myself at a social setting. You must have the same thing happen -- people asking for legal advice. What do you do?"

                    Lawyer: "Send her a bill. You answered her questions and gave her your medical opinion."

                    Two days later the doctor received a bill.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                      Originally posted by JackJD View Post
                      Reminds me of an old one:

                      A doctor and a lawyer were making small talk at a cocktail party. A woman approaches the doctor and starts discussing a medical condition with him, asking him what she should do about it. The doctor gives her some advice in the 10-minute convesation and the woman thanks him and walks away.

                      Doc: "I get that all the time and it really bothers me when I'm trying to just enjoy myself at a social setting. You must have the same thing happen -- people asking for legal advice. What do you do?"

                      Lawyer: "Send her a bill. You answered her questions and gave her your medical opinion."

                      Two days later the doctor received a bill.
                      If you have read John Grisham's "The Assoicate", you get this joke, which I did. Very funny btw.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                        Originally posted by JackJD View Post
                        Reminds me of an old one:

                        A doctor and a lawyer were making small talk at a cocktail party. A woman approaches the doctor and starts discussing a medical condition with him, asking him what she should do about it. The doctor gives her some advice in the 10-minute convesation and the woman thanks him and walks away.

                        Doc: "I get that all the time and it really bothers me when I'm trying to just enjoy myself at a social setting. You must have the same thing happen -- people asking for legal advice. What do you do?"

                        Lawyer: "Send her a bill. You answered her questions and gave her your medical opinion."

                        Two days later the doctor received a bill.
                        Not nearly as funny, but if you’re looking for an entertaining line from a forgettable late-90s comedy, a scene from "Liar Liar" comes to mind. Jim Carrey plays a flustered lawyer named Fletcher, and there's this scene in which his secretary receives an urgent phone call from one of Fletcher's criminally prone clients.

                        Secretary: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
                        Fletcher: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, a**hole!

                        Sound advice indeed. Not sure why I find that scene so funny, maybe it's the absurdity of a common, ATM-robbing street thug having a prominent, big-law trial attorney on retainer.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Lawyer Advice Needed

                          Originally posted by JackJD View Post
                          Reminds me of an old one:

                          A doctor and a lawyer were making small talk at a cocktail party. A woman approaches the doctor and starts discussing a medical condition with him, asking him what she should do about it. The doctor gives her some advice in the 10-minute convesation and the woman thanks him and walks away.

                          Doc: "I get that all the time and it really bothers me when I'm trying to just enjoy myself at a social setting. You must have the same thing happen -- people asking for legal advice. What do you do?"

                          Lawyer: "Send her a bill. You answered her questions and gave her your medical opinion."

                          Two days later the doctor received a bill.
                          This made me laugh really hard. Good work.
                          “I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems scary and wierd. It’ll happen to you.” — Abe Simpson

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