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Jul. 28th, 2003 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI got my will done last week. Valerie and another woman at the La Leche League meeting on Tuesday witnessed it. Scott says he'll get his done on Wednesday at Lewis' Star Wars game. That's, in his opinion, his best chance of getting witnesses. Of course, it wouldn't be ready for him to do that if I hadn't pulled out the form and demanded that he tell me what to write in each blank. He needs to add signatures in a couple of places to indicate choices and the sign the whole thing and get it witnessed. Legally speaking, I could even have signed it for him as long as he got witnesses to verify that he'd asked me to do so, but I found the whole process frustrating.
Scott's choices were almost the same as mine except that he's willing to let his sister be both guardian and conservator while I put my mother down as conservator. It's not a big deal. I'd have done what he did except that my mother was feeling rather as if I were leaving my own family out of things. Of course, yoking Suzanne and my mother together may be cruel to both of them...
The only finishing touch for my will, so to speak, is if I decide that I want to leave any specific items to anyone other than Scott. I can't think of anything that I really feel strongly about that way. Most of what I've got is books. I've got a few pieces of jewelry but not much. I don't generally care to wear it, so I discourage people from giving it to me. (As an example-- I lost my wedding ring while at GenCon last August and still haven't replaced it. I suppose I ought to, but... It's just a thing. The marriage is what's important, and I don't really even see the ring as a symbol of that. It's more like a sign I wore to tell other people that I was married, a social signal.)
I'm finding it interesting how many people I talk to who are my age who haven't got wills. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I really am, at least by those folks who have kids and no wills.
Scott's choices were almost the same as mine except that he's willing to let his sister be both guardian and conservator while I put my mother down as conservator. It's not a big deal. I'd have done what he did except that my mother was feeling rather as if I were leaving my own family out of things. Of course, yoking Suzanne and my mother together may be cruel to both of them...
The only finishing touch for my will, so to speak, is if I decide that I want to leave any specific items to anyone other than Scott. I can't think of anything that I really feel strongly about that way. Most of what I've got is books. I've got a few pieces of jewelry but not much. I don't generally care to wear it, so I discourage people from giving it to me. (As an example-- I lost my wedding ring while at GenCon last August and still haven't replaced it. I suppose I ought to, but... It's just a thing. The marriage is what's important, and I don't really even see the ring as a symbol of that. It's more like a sign I wore to tell other people that I was married, a social signal.)
I'm finding it interesting how many people I talk to who are my age who haven't got wills. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I really am, at least by those folks who have kids and no wills.
