re: OT Lawyers: How Much for a Last Will and Testament?

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Save your money and do one of the many online wills. With just a little investigating you'll find that many will stand up in the wacked out Louisiana laws designed to steal you children's or loved ones inheritance, but make sure you hand sign and date it and in the opening sentences make sure it states you sign this will being of sound mind and this will renders any previous wills nul and void. 

Really a lot of sites have it set up where you just fill in the blanks and it fills in all the state required jargon.

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Maybe if you just leave "all my possessions to X." Anything more complex than that is asking for trouble. There are all kinds of nuances that can trip a layman up, and you dont know what you dont know until its too late.

I deal with legal documents every single day, and I'm familiar enough with them that I could draw one up myself and it would probably be okay. But on the chance I've missed something, I go through a lawyer. I've seen people try to save a few hundred, then spend thousands or tens of thousands getting it unsnarled.