Day 92 — Write Your Own Will

One of my students, Charlie Malolo (J.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University School of Law) recently sent me a form will which provides a simple, albeit unusual, dispositive scheme for your property.  [If you click on the thumbnail to the left, you can see the will large enough to read.]

For example, it provides for the disposition of assets as follows:

• Car to husband.
• Food in my fridge to favorite child.
• Food in freezer to ugly child.
• Socks to child born out of wedlock.
• Favorite sweater to mistress.
• Secret life saving to lover.
• Huge debts to orphans.
• Bed bugs to Bill Gates.

Despite its design to be humorous, it has the necessary elements to be a valid will assuming it was executed by a person with testamentary capacity and testamentary intent and attested by two witnesses.