How Can I Sign Georgia Banking Last Will And Testament

How to industry sign banking georgia living will

hello everyone yesterday we talked about we're in Georgia and we have people call us quite frequently with questions about wills and thought we might address some of these questions I'm a Lucca honey I'm an attorney who provides estate planning immigration and family law services and I'm here with my marketing and office manager Nina clear your interactions can help others to see our videos thank you for helping us to have as many people as possible see our videos with only likes and shares and comments and always finish your questions we're here to help okay so I have had many people call and ask us here and I also worked in Utah in the records department and people would call and ask their who keeps the will once it's written it is best if the person whose will it is keeps it you can keep it in a safety deposit box at a bank only if someone it only if someone else has access to that so don't put it in a safe deposit box and nobody knows about it right or they don't have access because they also get a court order and it takes a while it takes a lot yes and your will is not going to be probate in the meantime also you can keep it you know fireproof safe at your home but again make sure you have someone that has access to that there is also an option with a fee to file it with the county where you leave with the clerk of the court make sure that you inform people people that you trust where you have you will and who have your well I mean you have a wealth right or did you have yes in the first place yes okay so you as an attorney don't keep a copy for your client well as attorneys we are only required to keep documents for a certain time period so I don't suggest that people rely on their attorney to have a copy of their will because we don't know when they will pass away so we can be the attorney might not have it anymore so we hope ever Anthony lived for decades yes and you might write the will even though we're we suggest a yearly review so chances are it would be known you know we want to make sure that you have it and your family can get to it so the other thing is sometimes new people say I'm really young I don't need a will is there an age that you think someone should be before they get a will Georgia says that anyone over 14 years old can have a will I absolutely recommend it as soon as you're respecting the child at least at that time you know you should create a will for the care and keeping of your child if something happens to you and is your will have to have any witnesses yes you have to have two witnesses can the witnesses be anybody well there are restrictions it can be anyone that it doesn't have to be so he doesn't have to be people that you know but whoever is a witness cannot inherit anything in the will so if they sign that will they cannot you cannot leave them something in that will so or if you do that inheritance is considered void do people pay taxes on the things they inherit they do depending on the value and I would talk to an attorney about that because this can change what about if you say I don't want to decide about everything I'm just gonna give my kids my house and they can figure out who gets what in the house is that okay yeah if you leave your house and all your belongings to your children or anyone then it becomes theirs and they can decide what happens to it and they can also decide if they don't want to give anything away or they want to give something away I did but they don't have to okay so what about illegitimate children can they inherit in Georgia if paternity has been established as we talked about in a few of our other videos they can in hair there is also some case law where a child can prove with 97% certainty that they are genetically related and the man has treated a child as their own throughout their life that has allowed them to inherit but if you have a circumstance like this I would talk to an attorney can you include properties outside of Georgia in your will yes you can what about properties outside of the country you can however again the rule of the foreign country may need to be considered so it's a good idea to speak to an attorney about that so which law governs your will and belongings if you die in Georgia it is based on Georgia's probate code does your will need to be typed up or can it be handwritten either one though type version depending on your penmanship it's probably easier for everyone to ensure your wishes have fallen and I know that you said you are concerned because you had somebody tell you that if you and your husband died at the same time your children could go to the state is that right then maybe true if both parents are deceased for children under the age of 18 and neither parent had a will so can you explain a little bit more fo well if you die and the other parent is alive that parent becomes the guardian of the children or the child even if you have named someone else as a guardian however if your child's parents died before or at the same time as you also who are also the parent of course and neither of you had a will the probate of juvenile courts will have a guardianship hearing to determine who takes the custody of the children and during that time the child may be in the state's custody typically the judge will try to place them with a biological royalty but if the child is over 14 they also considered their wishes and may be placed with a family member and is there anything else that is necessary in a will well it needs to be according to the laws of the state and Georgia requires that will be dated and I just want to mention again if after you have a wheel you want to modify it if you just send a letter to a friend telling them how you change your mind in your will that's not going to be a valid change of your wheel so you need to contact your attorney and change it properly we hope you have we hope we answered some of your questions and please if we didn't cover something please reach to us and thank you for watching and see you tomorrow bye bye