If the original Will is missing after you die, the law presumes that you destroyed it as an act of revocation.

Dear Mr. Premack: I just read your column from November 30 that an appointed executor cannot live outside the state of Texas if the parents are Texas residents, unless some type of paper is signed. All our children live outside Texas. The daughter we have appointed as executor lives in New Mexico. Is this ʺpaperʺ just a formality that does not actually cause a problem with her serving as executor? We are both 80 years old and both of us have wills drawn up by a lawyer. Thank