{"id":113,"date":"2009-06-09T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dev.atiqbd.com\/can-a-us-citizen-living-abroad-create-a-will-that-is-valid-in-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T16:17:22","slug":"can-a-us-citizen-living-abroad-create-a-will-that-is-valid-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standardlegal.com\/blog\/can-a-us-citizen-living-abroad-create-a-will-that-is-valid-in-the-united-states","title":{"rendered":"Can a U.S. Citizen Living Abroad Create a Will That is Valid in the United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly! So long as the Will is created to follow the laws of a particular state, and so long as the Will will be probated in that state, the current residency of the makers of the Will is not relevant.<\/p>\n<p>See complete details on <a title=\"Standard Legal's Last Will and Testament legal forms software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standardlegal.com\/Last-Will-and-Testament.html\">Standard Legal&#8217;s Last Will and Testament legal forms software<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly! So long as the Will is created to follow the laws of a particular state, and so long as the Will will be probated in that state, the current residency of the makers of the Will is not relevant. See complete details on Standard Legal&#8217;s Last Will and Testament legal forms software here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-last-will-and-testament-questions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can a U.S. Citizen Living Abroad Create a Will That is Valid in the United States? - Ask Standard Legal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standardlegal.com\/blog\/can-a-us-citizen-living-abroad-create-a-will-that-is-valid-in-the-united-states\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can a U.S. Citizen Living Abroad Create a Will That is Valid in the United States? - Ask Standard Legal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Certainly! 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