Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Ohio

My husband and I don't have a will. He says we don't need one as the surviving spouse gets everything anyway. I think we do so that we can protect everything we worked for without our children and grandchildren thinking they can just come in and take what's ours. If one of us dies without a will does the living spouse get everything?


Asked on 3/28/14, 4:54 am

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James Slater Slater & Zurz LLP

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Answered on 3/28/14, 5:00 am
Michael Brandabur Brandabur Law, LLC

The issue isn't so much as having a will drafted, it is having your estate looked at. That is to say, how things are titled, their values and how you want things to go upon either of your passing, and then the subsequent death of the survivor. To many people make assumptions about how things go upon the death of a person, only to discover they need to pursue a relatively expensive process that could have been avoided with some pre-death planning at a much lower cost.

I'd be happy to discuss this with the both of you during a free consultation.

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Answered on 3/28/14, 8:33 am


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