Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Pennsylvania

Wills

My husband and I each have a will that were written back in 1991. Since we have one daughter wo is now 21 and another that will be 18 later this year. We also havean 11 year old. We want to change the ''guardians of any minor chldren'' to the two older girls. Someone told me that we can just cross off their names and hand write who we want and sign and date it at each place we do that and it becomes the ''new will'' and will void out what was previously there. Is this true? If so, will it hold up in a court of law? Also - if that's not true, how well will these free ones online hold up? I'm not into spending $300 to change just a guardian. The only other thing we want to change is the age 25 for this kids to get anything - we want it to be 21.


Asked on 1/30/07, 6:36 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Solomon Weinstein Solomon Weinstein, Esquire

Re: Wills

You should either make a codicil to your will which is in effect an amendment or change. or have a new will drawn with the changes. The codicil would be less costly but is another document that you must keep with the original will. Do not write over or make your changes by crossing out your present will this only will create problems and most likely void the will. Contact an attorney such as myself to make a codicil or a new will

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Answered on 1/30/07, 11:17 am


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