8 Wills You Can Make Yourself For Free
AS A PUBLIC SERVICE, WE LET YOU MAKE SOME OF THE BEST WILLS AVAILABLE IN COLORADO FOR FREE. THESE ARE THE SAME WILLS OUR LEGAL STAFF USES AND THEY HAVE PREPARED ALMOST 10,000 WILLS AND TRUSTS SINCE 1974.
We offer 8 different Wills for FREE that you can easily make yourself because everyone in Colorado should be able to have a really good Colorado Will. You should also be aware of the legal and financial consequences of using a Will in Colorado so you don't pay a lot of money for a Will that results in $1,000s more in expenses and significant delays in distributing your estate upon your death.
In Colorado, ALL Wills, no matter how expensive they are or who prepares the Will, require probate that can cost $1,000s and delay the distribution of your estate by up to a year or more if:
- They include any Colorado real estate, regardless of its value, OR
- They include $50,000 or more in other assets.
That's why a Will is almost always the most expensive and time consuming way to leave your estate to someone if you leave any Colorado real estate OR $50,000 or more of other assets in your Will. Please don't make that mistake that's so simple and so affordable to avoid.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't have a Will. Everyone should have a Will because a Will does far more than just indicate who you want to receive the assets in your estate. It appoints someone to manage your estate, to raise your minor children, to indicate what you want done with your remains, to chose the age at which your children receive their inheritance and to leave specific items of your personal property to whoever you want to get them using a Tangible Personal Property Memorandum. It also indicates who receives your estate if all of your primary beneficiaries die before you do or with you in a common disaster. The Wills you make for FREE contain all of these provisions and more and are just a valid and legally binding as Wills costing $500 to $1,000.
If you want to avoid the time, hassle and expense of probate, and most of you should, you need to keep all of your Colorado real estate out of your Will and limit the other assets left in your Will to under $50,000. This is very simple for most of you to do yourself using either our $49.95 packet if you have no real estate or our $74.95 packet if you have real estate. You do not need a Living Trust to avoid probate for most estates up to $2 million if you use one of our packets. Even the Colorado Bar Association says not to use a Living Trust just to avoid probate unless you have a very large or very complex estate.
Now that you know the legal and financial consequences of using a Will and what should be included in your Will, you're ready to see how easy it is to make your own Colorado Will for FREE. Just click on one of the 8 Wills below that describes how you want your estate distributed, download it and fill it out. You can print it out and fill it out by hand or fill in the information on your computer before printing it out. You will receive get the instructions for filling it out that include how to have it properly witnessed and notarized. In addition, you will also get a Tangible Personal Property Memorandum to leave specific items of your personal property to someone and some sample text you may want to use in the section of your Will describing who gets your estate if something happens to all of the primary beneficiaries in your Will. Congratulations on making your own Colorado Will, doing it right and saving $100s.
- A WILL FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITHOUT CHILDREN that leaves everything to each other.
- A WILL FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH ONE CHILD that leaves everything to each other first and then to their only child.
- A WILL FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH MORE THAN ONE CHILD that leaves everything to each other first and then equally to their children.
- A WILL FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHILDREN FROM PREVIOUS MARRIAGES that leaves everything to each other first and then in unequal shares to the children of each prior marriage.
- A WILL FOR MARRIED COUPLES WITH CHILDREN FROM PREVIOUS MARRIAGES that leaves everything to each other first and then equally to all of the children they both have.
- A WILL FOR A SINGLE PARENT WITH ONLY ONE CHILD that leaves everything to that only child.
- A WILL FOR A SINGLE PARENT WITH MORE THAN ONE CHILD that leaves everything equally to his or her children.
- A WILL FOR A SINGLE PERSON WITH NO CHILDREN that leaves your estate to your parents, siblings or other loved ones.
Note: These forms require that you have Adobe Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this application, go to Adobe, download and install the application to enable you to use these PDF forms:
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YOU SHOULD ALSO HAVE A LIVING WILL, HEALTHCARE AND GENERAL DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY TO SAVE $1,000S IF YOU BECOME INCAPACITATED. THE COST FOR ALL THREE OF THESE DOCUMENTS IS ONLY $15.00
A Living Will allows you to decide when you no longer want to be kept alive on machines if you have a terminal condition or are in a persistent vegetative state and 2 doctors certify there is no reasonable hope of your recovering. Colorado's new 2010 Living Will also lets you decide who you want to have access to your doctors and medical records (HIPPA Release), whether or not you want to be an organ donor, whether or not your Healthcare Power of Attorney can override your Living Will and finally, to make any other medical directives you feel are appropriate for your medical condition.
A Healthcare Power of Attorney allows you to designate someone to make medical decisions for you if you are mentally or physically incapacitated and cannot make your own medical decisions.
A General Durable Power of Attorney allows you to appoint someone to manage all your financial affairs in the event you become mentally or physically incapacitated and cannot do this yourself.
Having these 3 documents can save $1,000s in legal fees, court costs and medical expenses should you become mentally or physically incapacitated which eventually happens to about 60% of Colorado residents. That's why we offer these 3 documents with all the 2010 updates for only $15 for all three.
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