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- WILL (Simple Form)
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- LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF:_______________________
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- I, ______________________, a resident of
- __________________ County, declare that this is my will.
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- FIRST:
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- I revoke all Wills and Codicils that I have previously
- made.
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- SECOND:
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- I am not currently married. I have no children now
- living, nor have I any deceased
- children who died and left issue.
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- THIRD:
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- I give all my jewelry, clothing, household furniture and
- furnishings, personal automobiles and other tangible articles of
- a personal nature, or my interest in any such property not
- otherwise disposed of by this will or in any other manner
- together with any insurance on the property, to _________________
- who presently resides at _____________________, _________________
- if he or she survives me by thirty (30) days, and if he or she
- does not so survive me, then I give said property to
- ____________, who presently resides at ________________, and if
- she or he does not survive me by thirty (30) days, then to
- ______________________ who presently resides at
- _________________, otherwise to pass with the residency of my
- estate.
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- FOURTH:
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- I give the residue of my estate as follows:
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- 1. To ______________________ who presently resides at
- __________________ should he or she survive me by thirty (30)
- days. <share and share alike>
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- 2. If __________________ who presently resides at
- ________________________, does not survive me by thirty (30)
- days, I give his or her interest to _________________ who
- presently resides at ___________________, and if she does not
- survive me by thirty (30) days, then to ____________________ who
- presently resides at ______________________ should he or she
- survive me by thirty (30) days, and if he or she should not so
- survive me, then I give the rest and residue of my estate to
- those persons who would have taken said property under the
- interstate laws of the state of ____________________. <Repeat if
- necessary>
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- FIFTH:
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- I nominate _____________________ who shall be represented
- by __________________ as Executor of this Will, to serve without
- bond. If he or she shall for any reason fail to qualify as
- Executor, I nominate ___________________________ who shall be
- represented by ________________ as Executor to serve without
- bond. The term "my Executor" as used in this Will shall include
- any personal representative of my estate.
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- I authorize my Executor to sell, with or without notice,
- at either public or private sale, and to lease any property
- belonging to my estate, subject only to such confirmation of
- court as may be required by law.
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- I authorize my Executor to invest and reinvest any
- surplus money in the Executor's hands in every kind of property,
- real, personal, or mixed and every kind of investment,
- specifically including but not limited to interest bearing
- accounts, corporate obligations of every kind, preferred or
- common stocks, shares of investment trusts, investment companies,
- mutual funds, or common trust funds, including funds administered
- by the Executor, and mortgage participations, that men of
- prudence, discretion, and intelligence acquire for their own
- account.
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- SIXTH:
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- I direct that all inheritance, estate, or other death
- taxes (excluding any additional tax imposed under Internal
- Revenue Code Section 2032A or any generation skipping transfer
- tax) that may be reason of my death, be attributable to my
- probate estate or any portion of it, or to any property or
- transfers of property outside my probate estate, shall be paid by
- my Executor out of the residue of my estate disposed of by this
- Will, without adjustment among the residuary beneficiaries, and
- shall not be charged against or collected from any beneficiary of
- my probate estate, or from any transferee or beneficiary of any
- property outside my probate estate.
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- SEVENTH:
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- If any beneficiary under this Will in any manner,
- directly or indirectly, contests or attacks this Will or any of
- its provisions, any share or interest in my estate given to the
- contesting beneficiary under this Will is revoked and shall be
- disposed of in the same manner provided herein as if that
- contesting beneficiary had predeceased me without issue.
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- I subscribe my name to this Will on _________,19__, at
- __________________________.
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- ________________________________
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- On the date written below, ________________________
- declared to us, the undersigned, that this instrument, consisting
- of these few pages including the page signed by us as witnesses,
- was his or her Will and requested us to act as witnesses to it.
- He or she thereupon signed this Will in our presence, all of us
- being present at the same time. We now, at his or her request,
- in his or her presence and in the presence of each other,
- subscribe our names as witnesses.
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- Each states that the testator is not a minor and appears
- to be of sound mind and that we have no knowledge or any facts
- indicating that the foregoing instrument, or any part of it, was
- procured by duress, menace, fraud or undue influence.
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- We, each of himself or herself, declare that each of us
- is over the age of majority, and that each of us is, and the
- others appear to be of sound mind.
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- We, each for himself or herself, declare under penalty of
- perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this
- attestation and this declaration are executed on the __________
- day of ____________, 19__ at ________________,
- _______________________.
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- ____________________________ residing at _____________________
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- ____________________________ residing at ______________________
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- ___________________________ residing at _______________________
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- Form 608
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