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changing will after marriage

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april15

Guest
PA: My SO and I have named each other in our Wills and
Powers of Attorney. We are getting married and are preparing
a pre-nup waiving spousal inheritance rights so we can leave
property directly to our individual kids. We want the terms of
our current wills and POA's kept after our marriage. Do we have
to execute new documents? I'm adding his name to mine
after our marriage, keeping my current as my new middle
name. Will documents executed in my old name be legal?
thanks
 


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advisor10

Guest
3-5-2002

It is best to avoid any and all confusion by having new documents executed to show the correct current names. If you are using the same attorneys to draw up the will who worked on them before, then that is a simple change to make on a word processor. The importance of your marital status change also makes it advisable to have completely new documents executed in case there is the small chance of your wanting to make any other minor or significant changes to the wording.

SINCERELY,

advisor
 

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