Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Wisconsin

Changing our will to replace one of the executors with another

Can my wife and I change our will regarding executors by merely writing up our wishes as to who is to be replaced and who is to take over that job. We would sign it and have it notarized. We would then place one copy of the change with our will in our safe deposit box and give the other copy to the attorney who wrote up the will for us.

If in can't be done in this manner, then how should it be properly done?


Asked on 1/21/01, 12:35 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

JAY Nixon nixon law offices

Re: Changing our will to replace one of the executors with another

My advice would be to redo the wills. Any other

type of revision may not comply with the legal

requirements for proper execution and witnessing.

In these days of word processors, the cost of

redoing the will is probably less than the cost

of having your lawyer retype a revision of the

will from scratch.

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Answered on 2/14/01, 8:10 am


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