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Can you write a will without an attorney?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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Sure...but it will likely cause more problems than it will resolve.

Lawyers typically do this fairly inexpensively anyway.

You lready have a will....it was written by the State you die in and will be what is used if you don't have a properly written one of your own.

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