Prepare today for both the FINANCIAL and HEALTH CARE future of your entire family -- and get a big discount of 25%, too!
The Complete Family Wills Software from Standard Legal allows anyone to quickly and easily create BOTH a Last Will and Testament and a Living Will for every family member!
Save money, too! The Complete Family Will package is 25% off vs. the cost of purchasing the Will and Living Will titles separately: just $22.45 (vs. $29.90)!
PART 1: LAST WILL & TESTAMENT
A Last Will & Testament is one of the most important legal documents a person can create during his or her lifetime: it is the document that determines who receives the assets of that person upon his or her death.
While the common laws of most states are set up to provide the assets of an estate first to the surviving spouse and then to any children of that person if the spouse is no longer living, this hierarchy of distribution is not always guaranteed.
Spending just a few minutes today to create a legal Will form is simply smart estate planning: a Last Will and Testament will guarantee that your family receives the assets of your estate when the time comes. Why let the vagaries of state laws and the decisions of a probate court judge affect your spouse's finances or your children's finances after you die?
Creating a legal Last Will and Testament document allows you, the Maker of the Will, to specify exactly who is to receive the assets of your estate. Creating a Will shortens the Probate process exponentially, as the primary question remaining before the distribution of assets is the authenticity of the Will, which is easily proven by the signature of the Notary.
Creating a Will removes nearly all questions about the distribution of the assets of an estate and speeds the transfer of those assets to the designated survivors.
Standard Legal Software's Last Will & Testament program allows you to easily, quickly and affordably create a legal Will document that is valid in all 50 states. This Will software eliminates nearly every question or potential issue regarding the distribution of assets upon death, making the transfer of assets to the rightful heirs as stress-free as possible.
Standard Legal provides a variety of Last Will and Testament documents within its software. Each document set covers a specific type of family arrangement: Wills for married people; Wills for unmarried people; Wills for people with children; and Wills for people with no children.
One of the Will forms provided in the software also allow for specific gifting provisions, allowing the maker of the Will to designate certain assets to certain beneficiaries. While specific gifting is certainly not required (and the most common of the Will forms provided only allow for general distributions of assets instead of specific gifting), the option exists within Standard Legal's Will software to create specific gifting clauses.
A Will Directing Sale of Assets and Payment of Proceeds to Beneficiaries is also included. This Will provides that the real and personal property of the decedant be sold after his or her death and the money generated by the sale of such property (i.e. the proceeds) be distributed to the persons named by the maker as his or her beneficiaries. This Will allows specific dollar amounts to be passed to the beneficiaries or a percentage of the total proceeds after the sale of the property.
Standard Legal also includes a Notice of Final Disposition document. This document allows you to describe your wishes as they pertain to funeral arrangements and the disposition of your bodily remains. Using this document permits you to declare your desires while you are alive for specific funeral arrangements and burial or cremation (or other processes) after death. This document should be provided to your loved ones now, relieving them of having to make these choices during a difficult time. If there is no Final Disposition document prepared in advance, the law in the state where you die generally determines who will decide how the remains are handled. This document allows you to make your wishes known in advance!
BONUS: the software also includes an Assets and Accounts List form that allows you to list the location of all of your bank accounts, insurance policies, safety deposit boxes, stocks and bonds, and other liquid assets, so your family and/or executor has a complete record of where your assets can be found.
A Will document protects the structure and relationships within your family by making your wishes clearly known to all. Why not spend a few minutes and an amount of money that is less than a Friday night dinner to create the Will papers that are so important to your family's future?
Plus, each version of the Standard Legal Last Will and Testament is set up to be "self-authenticating" -- which means that finding and using the services of a Notary is not necessary in states that don't specifically require it! Every Will form includes both a detailed witness verification provision (i.e. -- self-authorizing) and the standard Notary's Acknowledgement form. Thus, the validity of your Will is doubly covered!
Take advantage of the ease of use and completeness of product that Standard Legal can provide. Get the peace of mind that solidifying your Will can bring. Create a comprehensive Last Will and Testament for your family today!
PART 2: LIVING WILL WITH ADVANCED HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE AND POWER OF ATTORNEY
A Living Will is an important healthcare document. It allows you to clearly spell out to your family and trusted friends EXACTLY the steps you want them to take -- and EXACTLY the steps you DO NOT want them to take -- should you become seriously ill, seriously injured, or incapacitated.
Candidly, some Living Wills are better than others.
In the past, Living Wills were often brief and did little more than discuss life support situations, leaving many issues up for debate.
Today, most states accept Advanced Healthcare Directives, which combine the effectiveness of a Living Will with the specificity of a Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney. Combining these documents covers nearly every medical, jurisdictional and life support situation, and allows the Principal (the person making the Living Will) to choose in advance who will make life and death healthcare decisions on his or her behalf.
The Standard Legal Living Will legal forms software program offers this Advanced Healthcare Directive. The Living Will documents offered by Standard Legal are valid in all states. Even in the states where the Directive is not specifically outlined by state law, the individual contents of the Standard Legal documents are valid in their stand-alone sections; in other words, the Living Will section and the Healthcare Power of Attorney section are effective individually.
In addition to this Advanced Healthcare Directive, the Standard Legal Living Will software package also includes a Durable Property Power of Attorney, to cover your financial bases. This Property Power of Attorney allows you to designate in advance the person you want to represent you in financial and property dealings should you become unable to make those decisions yourself.
(Many legal forms companies sell the Power of Attorney forms separately for $15-$20; the Standard Legal Network includes them as a part of this comprehensive Living Will software product!)
Standard Legal also includes a Notice of Final Disposition document. This document allows you to describe your wishes as they pertain to funeral arrangements and the disposition of your bodily remains. Using this document permits you to declare your desires while you are alive for specific funeral arrangements and burial or cremation (or other processes) after death. This document should be provided to your loved ones now, relieving them of having to make these choices during a difficult time. If there is no Final Disposition document prepared in advance, the law in the state where you die generally determines who will decide how the remains are handled. This document allows you to make your wishes known in advance!
Finally, the software also contains the HIPAA Medical Records Release Authorization form. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, imposes privacy rules on how and when medical providers can disclose information about their patients. Without special authorization, your doctor cannot disclose medical information that might be crucial to the enactment of your Living Will. Without a proper HIPAA release, the persons that you appointed to act as your agent might not be able to obtain the information necessary to invoke the power of attorney. Further, without the appropriate HIPAA release, certain medical facilities may have difficulty obtaining your medical information. This HIPAA Medical Records Release Authorization document will allow medical information to be provided to the person listed as holding the power of attorney to make health care decisions on your behalf.
With all of these critical forms packaged together -- and provided in a format that is easy to use, given the step-by-step instructions that are also provided -- the Standard Legal Living Will software program is a truly great value! Why leave your health care decisions to chance -- or let them be decided by a court -- when you can quickly, easily and affordably make your intentions known without question?
After quite a number of years of procrastination, it was the compact, concise and very affordable Standard Legal documents that got me to complete my Will and Living Will. The price and service can't be better. Thanks for helping me get that important yet 'put-offable' task finished.
-- Eric Ford, Phillipsburg NJ
I ordered three Standard Legal forms: Last Will & Testament, Power of Attorney and Living Will. The forms were written in such a way that the 'legaleze' was easy for a layman such as myself to understand; the language and meaning left nothing to question. No law library was necessary. The witnesses and Notary I chose to verify my signature were amazed at the simplicity of it all. I am satisfied that the forms will do the job when the time comes to settle my estate...
-- Charles L. White, Fulton TX
I purchased Standard Legal software to prepare a Last Will and Testament for myself and my family. My mother passed away last July and although she had a Will, we couldn't locate the original -- and that caused me hours of paperwork and follow-up in Probate Court. I decided right then that I was not going to experience that again with my family...
-- Ayani Good, Chicago IL
I'm a guardian ad litem for the county I live in, and I do legal research for my own company. Over the last few years, I have been asked to help write a Last Will and Testament for several friends and business clients. To handle those requests, I've always just gone to the nearest store and bought pre-printed forms. I finally decided there had to be an easier way. I found your StandardLegal.com web site and purchased the software download. It went so well and was a lot less hassle than pre-printed forms. I would recommend Standard Legal software to anyone -- and I have!
-- Michele Peele, Hickory NC
I purchased Standard Legal software in order to prepare a Will, a Healthcare Power of Attorney and a Living Will for my ailing mother-in-law. The forms were easy to use and I prepared the documents in a short period of time. Unfortunately, my mother in law died within 10 days of the forms being prepared and signed. The local hospital honored the Living Will forms, and the attorney who assisted me in probating her estate was impressed with the quality of the Will. The estate was probated without incident. I will be purchasing additional Standard Legal software in order to sell my mother-in-law's real estate. Your software saved me hundreds of dollars, so thank you!
-- Bryan Frank, Anderson IN
I bought your Last Will & Testament package last year, right before we left on a cross-country trip of 3 to 4 months. I could not get a lawyer to create a Will for us right before we left, so I used Standard Legal software. The Will gave us peace of mind that if anything happened to us while traveling, our wishes would be taken care of. After we returned home, I had the opportunity to let a lawyer friend of mine look at the document that I had purchased and created. He assured me that the Will was perfectly fine!
-- Donald Lysell, Winston-Salem NC
Thank you for all your help! My wife and I had never thought about making out a Last Will and Testament until now. We were given news that we were going to be grandparents in just a few short months, and thought we had better get on the stick! So again, thank you!
-- David L. Smith
Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I appreciate your customer service - it speaks highly of the overall product of Standard Legal.
-- Gerald Bogard
With a very sick father suffering from cancer, Standard Legal allowed me to get the appropriate legal documents prepared for him without my father ever having to leave the comfort of his home. Thanks, Standard Legal.
-- Howard Jordan II, Pensacola FL
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & SOFTWARE FILE SPECIFICATIONS:
Standard Legal Software works on virtually all Windows, Apple / Mac, and Linux-based systems. Links to a downloadable file are presented immediately upon the completion of your transaction. The initial download is provided as a compressed .zip file which much be expanded to access a series of folders containing all of the legal forms, overview files and instruction files. To expand the initial download, most computers come with a decompression utility like WinZip pre-installed; if your computer does not have a .zip utility, we recommend StuffIt Expander (it's FREE!).
For most titles, the initial download contains all of the forms and instructions needed. However, an active web connection is highly recommended even after the initial downloaded is completed, as some of the information contained within some of the titles may be accessible only from our online forms server. (Read the START-HERE.txt file included in the initial download for specific instructions.) The online forms server allows for the most up-to-date legal documents to be available at any time, and prevents the user from downloading forms that will never be used from titles that have an exceptionally large number of files. Once the proper forms are downloaded from our servers, they are to be completed offline; you do not need to be online to complete any of the forms.
Generally, the legal forms contained within each Standard Legal title are provided in three formats: as Microsoft Word files, as standard text files, and as Adobe PDF files. TO GET A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNCTIONALITY OF OUR LEGAL FORM FORMATS -- AS WELL AS FULLY-WORKING SAMPLES OF THOSE FORMATS -- CLICK HERE. Note that some forms are provided in only one or two of the available formats.
The fully-featured commercial version of Microsoft Word is required to complete the Word-formatted forms. Other open-source and commercial word processing programs like Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, Word Pad, OpenOffice, Google Docs, Note Pad or Simple Text may also be used, but only with the "straight text" version of the forms. Finally, the provided PDF versions of the forms require the download and installation of either Adobe's Acrobat Reader (it's FREE!), another vendor's PDF program that permits the entering of data into form fields, or the full commercial version of Adobe Acrobat.
Access to the password-protected online legal forms server (sometimes called "the online version") requires a java-enabled web browser like Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, which typically comes already installed on most systems. (If your system does not have a web browser, you can download the most recent version of Internet Explorer or Firefox for FREE.) Once you access the online version of our legal forms server, the user should read the instructions provided on the main menu and download only the specific legal forms, overviews and instructions required for his or her situation. Once all of the necessary files are downloaded, the user may complete those forms "offline" using the programs listed above.
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