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One Joint Will or Two Wills For Calgary Legal Wills

Russ Weninger|Calgary Lawyer practice is to prepare two wills, one for each spouse. You can have the service through visiting calgarylegalwills.com.

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One Joint Will or Two Wills For Calgary Legal Wills

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  1. With a husband and wife, would you prepare one joint will or two wills? - Russ Weninger -

  2. Some jurisdictions allow for joint wills.

  3. However, Russ Weninger practice is to prepare two wills, one for each spouse. Joint wills have too many drawbacks.

  4. In particular, a husband and wife’s wishes are not always in line. image from http://cesspoolofmadness.com

  5. For example, the husband may wish for one of his siblings to be his alternate executor, and the wife may wish for one of her siblings to be her alternate executor. image from http://www.boldsky.com

  6. In all likelihood, one spouse will predecease the other, rather than both dying at the same time. image from www.huffingtonpost.com

  7. Since a joint will may be probated for the spouse who dies first, the second spouse would then likely have to do another will anyway. image from www.huffingtonpost.com

  8. Calgary Legal Wills of Russ Weninger Russ Weninger403-265-4496Suite 300,404 – 6th Avenue SWCalgary, Alberta T2P 0R9russ@russweninger.com

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